When Will We Become Interstellar?

If faster than light travel is possible we will figure it out and use it. If it’s not we are unlikely to ever bother with manned travel outside our solar system.
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I think of it as more of a certainty that interstellar travel will happen because space bends. And there is the math to prove it. So its possible.

You figure we are today 500 years from Christopher Columbus. The world has closed. We are in the very first years of solar system migration. This is a quantum leap on the same scale as the great leap across the oceans 500 years ago.

The leap to the stars from the solar system is just as big a leap as the earth to the solar system and 500 years ago— the leap from the old world to the new world.

So will it be 500 years before the real leap to the stars begins?

The question of the thread is when will the leap happen? The point I’ve been making is that the faster the computer speeds — the sooner in future history —that interstellar travel will begin.

I understood your point. My point was that we will not send men to the stars unless FTL travel is accomplished. Pat historical leaps in technology have no effect on whether it is possible or not. Reality is what it is.

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