/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8436634
Materials can only be made so strong and computers so fast. We are rapidly approaching the limits of what can be done and we are already seeing diminishing returns.

I am not saying interstellar space travel is impossible. On the contrary it could have been done with 1980s tech if the species as a whole had the will to do so. I am just saying that interstellar space travel is a lot more dangerous, slow, expensive, and simpler than people seem to think it is.

The tech and industrial capacity is there and has been for a while. We need only the will to do it.