OK, to clarify
I would like before I die to see progress towards us as a species getting off this rock. Unmanned stuff is interesting, but not directly productive in that sense.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

you just want to live on Mars

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:06, Reply)

Of course I do, who doesn't?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:10, Reply)

people who want to
live in modified pods which drift through the thick soup of Jupiter's atmosphere
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:11, Reply)

tempting
but i'd prefer mars.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:18, Reply)

I think the view would be better on mars
although I've always wanted to live on a place where you can see other planets in a large proportion of the sky. I have an occassional recurring dream with this in. It freaked me out when exactly this happened in Dr Who once.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:22, Reply)

Ideally I like the idea of a generation ship
who am I kidding, Ideally I want to captain a Firefly.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:26, Reply)

I'll fight you for command

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:32, Reply)

Fine, I don't mind, you can captain
I'll be lieutenant in charge of guns and stuff. We had this conversation before I think.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)

i think that was a pirate ship

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Same principal.
I do not yearn for the responsibility of command, I'll settle for being 1st officer to a decent captain.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)

I'd make a terrible captain
but I'd put a lot of effort into the costume and that's the real mark of a captain
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)

that's OK, you can be a figure head while I make all thee decisions.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)

Sounds like London
but without the riots
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:23, Reply)

and it's back to steampunk

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Well I don't think you will see that.
We're not going to live anywhere else. Other planets are rubbish for living on.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:07, Reply)

I said "progress towards", which I think I will see.
ETA: and looking only at this solar system is thinking small.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:10, Reply)

Nah
You haven't got that long left.
Also, it is the getting to other solar systems which is the problem.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:16, Reply)

Again, "progress towards".
If one commercial passenger carrying space ship is launched in the next 50 years it'll count and they are already building them.

I am aware that getting to other solar systems is not currently easy/possible, but I see no reason for this to limit long term ambitions to what we are currently capable of.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:21, Reply)

not if we make a pact with alien species with
better tech
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)

I imagine that they are struggling with much the same limitations as we are

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)

you imagine an awful lot of negativity my friend.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)

negativity/reality
I'm working on the principle that the universal laws of physics are, y'know, universal. I think this is currently in vogue amongst scientists.
Also with the view that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. In 50 years time those unattainable solar systems will be further away.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:41, Reply)

Nooooooooooooooooo!
I wanna see an alien : (
( girlinthehole, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:42, Reply)

again you miss my point
You keep answering as if I had said I wanted to be living on another planet in 50 years. I give up on this conversation.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:47, Reply)

Speed of light is absolute
and that's just not fast enough really
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)