>>1210748Ah, you're right, I apologize.
I'm not really confident humanity's gonna make it too far. We're at a crossroads where a whole lot can go wrong if we don't gain control of the wheel. If we can delay it long enough that we get people even just on Mars, though, then I think we end up mitigating a lot of risk. We've gotten pretty good at keeping most of Earth connected, which unfortunately means it's easy for negative things to travel along those connections, be they viruses, nuclear missiles, or rogue AIs.
But so far, we can't even land on something like Mars with a great deal of success, and the first colonists won't have nearly the direct connection potential of Earthlings back on Earth. My hope is that space colonization becomes economically feasible, but interplanetary missiles do not.
