The sun will burn out, so let's sail to the stars. But after that, today's consensus cosmology has star formation failing eventually, followed by the eventual burn-out of those stars that have already formed. Areas of energy flux in the cosmos pretty much go to zero, and the possibility of life ceases. It ends dark and cold.
It seems like Landis is playing a losing game. If his hope is in the eternal existence of the human race, then he can't have any. Hope, that is. A cheery eschatology is not the strong suit of secularism.
I'm all fer flying to some stars, even if it starts now with musing over highly improbably and unworkable technologies like this one. The motivation of the NASA guy quoted in the article just strikes me as odd.
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It seems like Landis is playing a losing game. If his hope is in the eternal existence of the human race, then he can't have any. Hope, that is. A cheery eschatology is not the strong suit of secularism.
I'm all fer flying to some stars, even if it starts now with musing over highly improbably and unworkable technologies like this one. The motivation of the NASA guy quoted in the article just strikes me as odd.