How many more years before "WE" achieve REAL space travel technology?

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LarryF

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As time goes by, some sci-fi movies like "2001" and "2010" are just becoming flat out crazy. Blade Runner is set at 2019. Star Trek is set about 200-300 years into the future. Star Wars is set some 1,000 years into the future.

Many more sci-fi movies are set in the mid-21st to early 22nd centuries. With all this RELIGIOUS and political turmoils facing our facing our beloved Earth, I doubt humanity will achieve such a technological leap forward.
 
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beth_6953

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Other countries are way ahead of us in space travel but our government is holding us back because the do not want to fund any new technologies. Its not as far off as we are lead to believe.
 
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Quadrillian

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Yes indeed,

You obviously realise that the supposed continuing exponential advances in scientific discovery may be a myth. Science had huge successes early last century, a hundred years ago, when the quantum theory and relativity were discovered. Before that it was electromagnetic theory. But in the last half century the pace of scientific advance appears to have faltered. There have been lots of minor victories and discoveries, but nothing like the discovery of relativity. Could it be that we have basically discovered all the major laws and effects that exist?

We still await quantum gravity, but that will essentially remove the singularities and infinities that plague our current incomplete theories rather than providing new breakthroughs to serve as a basis for technology. Also there is esoterica such a the nature of dark matter to discover. Once again it is more a cleanup exercise than a breakthrough.

It may be that there is no basis for new technology. Faster than light travel, worm holes, time travel and other dubious notions may very well be fiction. It is wise to at least consider the possibility. The stars might not be ours to reach.

Cheers!
 
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