Yes we will. Life extension technology is really coming along, NASA is finally moving forward with its Artemis program and we, ourselves, can band together to fund the construction of whatever is needed to start human expansion into space now, in our time.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is late 70's, early 80's, even with shit food, but if you start eating clean, exercise and quit smoking, you can easily add at least another 5-7 years to your life. If you're in your 30's, you have another 45-50 years to see really cool shit come along, and even to make it happen.

We can go online and learn the maths and physics necessary to start planning and building a lot of this shit, too. We have more resources at our disposal now than we ever did before. We just have to get started, that's all.

A catastrophic solar flare will happen before that happens

If density is constant then surface gravity increases linearly with radius: an r^(3) mass divided by gravity's r^(2) falloff.

So 10x the gravity means 10x the diameter and 1000x the mass. Crazy!

Density skews things, but even ignoring it is good enough for a sanity check. (I'm pretty sure 2x the density = 2x the gravity at the same size)

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We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy.

Yes, it bothers me. There are many cosmology mysteries that bother me, because a lack of answer means I can't answer philosophical questions that are important for me.

The existence of alien life is just another thing having philosophical implications for me.

We don't need to travel to other planets to discover alien life. Technology is already advanced enough to discover it. For example, the JWST can detect biosignatures. The HaBex can directly image exoplanets and their surface, so we can see if there are animals and vegetation.

I believe we are close to discover alien life if it exists. Technology is already advanced and is about to reach a tipping point. If the Artemis mission is successful, this will start another space race that will accelerate progress in space exploration.

Have you ever been on an airplane? If so, you've seen the world in a way that most humans who have ever lived could only dream of.

In the future you're describing people will feel the same way about missing out because what you see as fantastic right now, they will see as mundane.

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Yeah, I’ll be surprised if humanity is even still around in another 500-600 years.

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No. I wasn't alive when a lot of things happened, and I won't be alive when a bunch of other hopefully cool stuff happens. And I don't believe enough in my own exceptionalism to think that I'd get to experience it in any more positive way than looking on from an increasingly dirty Earth and thinking, 'Wow that's cool!' I already get to do that.

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If we get to that stage, we will no longer just be a single human race. We will have evolved to the needs of our environments. We will be a link in the chain of evolution

But no, it doesn't bother me at all. We are alive for the birth of the technology age, and that is amazing

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Yes. Unless it happens soon I am likely to miss The Most Important Moment in human history. It will change EVERYTHING about our lives, in ways we cannot even imagine.

Still maybe it will happen in the near future... it's always possible

Yes

I was born a bit too early to have any chance of being the first human on another planet

How are you so confident?
I assure you, we’re are being watched by otherworldly beings and they will make their presence known on their terms.

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I like to think that the future is unpredictable. We don’t know what will happen in a year, or 10 years or 50 years. Who knows how long we will be able to live (or have consciousness) with new technologies? And who knows what will happen in the future that will allow us new capabilities in terms of space travel?

I'll leave the anal probes for another lucky generation.

>humans will be so advanced that we will be travelling to & living on other worlds & possibly we finally encounter intelligent alien life somewhere.

When we finally make it to other worlds, we will be the alien life, not them.

Like clumps of salt in the sky

How will he make change for the alien space highway tolls though? I heard they only accept paper money.

On Reddit? Absolutely nada. IRL? If you guys wanna be pirates I'm sure I'll have more help than necessary.. But then again, y'all give the appearance of think piracy is like a Sid Meier game. Shrugs. Yep, I'd space that flavor human fast.