“Cut to the chase. Does this mean humans will never get star travel?”
We’ll get there. We just don’t understand even the basic concepts yet.
In the most recent Star Trek movie, the elder Spock showed the younger Scotty the equation to achieve transport through hyperspace. Scotty took one look at the numbers and said, “Huh, I didn’t realize that space was the thing moving.” That’s science fiction, but it does illustrate one point: Our ideas of physics are vastly limited.
One hundred years ago the Sopwith Camel biplane was still a few years away. Think of where we’ll be in another hundred.
Slaving in the rice paddies for our Chinese overlords...
uh... we will all be dead.