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Sup /Sci/

Realistically, when do you think space travel will be available to the extent that air travel is today? Also, what are the drawbacks of humans reaching into space?

>> No.3263025
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3263025

never.
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>> No.3263030

>>3262995
>what are the drawbacks

no where to go. it's all at best a pretty desert up their

>> No.3263031

next week

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3263034

You can't treat an spacecraft as an airplane.

The distances, for one, are whole orders of magnitude above what a human can deal with without becoming bored; ie an air flight is just a trip, a spaceflight to the Moon is like going on a very expensive trip to some exotic part of the world, and a trip to Mars or Cisjovian space is throwing your common life away and going off to write your memoirs in the shadow of Olympus Mons. Even with the bestest engines (Which all eventually reach the point of being a stream of gamma), it's not going to be a short trip like East Coast-West Coast.

Difficulties and timescales aside, the point spacecraft become nearly as prevalent as aircraft is the point where anyone can print a spacecraft in their backyard; that is; open-source manufacturing + molecular assembly + an extensive community of Aerospace Engineers working entire for free.

>> No.3263039

>>3263025
We all know that's not true my friend