Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now

Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by jraines on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:26PM (#428633)

Right. But will that race be interplanetary and/or capable of deep space survival?

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by dfranke on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:42PM (#428649)

I could tell you with considerably greater confidence whether or not it will snow in Boston ten years from today.

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by rsheridan6 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @10:53PM (#428758)

Based on the fact that we haven't seen any aliens, and assuming that we're not the first intelligent species in the universe for roughly the same reason I assume I'm not the first person to have some bright idea for a web app, I'm going to guess no, or at least that it's not cost effective. Otherwise we'd probably have seen von Neumann probes or something like that by now (or more likely, we wouldn't be here).

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by rw on Saturday January 10, 2009 @11:50PM (#428798)

I hear Revelation Space there :)

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by rsheridan6 on Sunday January 11, 2009 @01:28AM (#428902)

I haven't read it. I was just thinking my favorite explanation for the Fermi Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Communication_is_...

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