The stars are so far, and humans' current space-travel range so limited, that it could take 100 years or more to even design a ship to travel interstellar distances. This weekend in Florida, though, dreamers gathered at a DARPA conference to take the first step: Batting around crazy ideas for how humanity could colonize the galaxy.
And none of them will ever get us to the stars. We need to think much bigger and further. To read the rest of the article, click here.
"Hardly "wild", more accurately "mild" - lousy article. It did not only not mention my talk on warp drive and back-from-the-future communication, but it did not even mention Eric Davis's, Marc Millis's, and Harold White's more mainstream discussions of what I offered an approach for practical solutions to." - Jack Sarfatti