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Interesting. (And not just because it was written by Richard "Lord British" Garriott de Cayeux.)
Of course, the comments so far are filled with a lot of negative nancy naysayers. Poo on them, I say. Now granted, I do agree with them at least in that it probably won't happen in my lifetime, and almost certainly not within the next 30 years time frame that Garriott proposes (although I'd be glad to be wrong in this case), but I don't doubt that eventually humanity will indeed be living on planets other than Earth. I'm talking centuries here, not decades, but the ball has to start rolling somewhere. Well, the ball is already rolling, but the terrain is fairly rocky at this point in time.
This is all assuming, of course, that we don't end up wiping ourselves out completely in some horrible way beforehand, which is an all too real possibility.
Of course, the comments so far are filled with a lot of negative nancy naysayers. Poo on them, I say. Now granted, I do agree with them at least in that it probably won't happen in my lifetime, and almost certainly not within the next 30 years time frame that Garriott proposes (although I'd be glad to be wrong in this case), but I don't doubt that eventually humanity will indeed be living on planets other than Earth. I'm talking centuries here, not decades, but the ball has to start rolling somewhere. Well, the ball is already rolling, but the terrain is fairly rocky at this point in time.
This is all assuming, of course, that we don't end up wiping ourselves out completely in some horrible way beforehand, which is an all too real possibility.
