I don’t know it for certain, but I know it’s probably true that…
- Wealthy folks will do it for fun someday. It’ll be the “backpacking across Europe”
- We’ll probably be able to get out of our own solar system but I don’t think we’ll ever make it out of our own galaxy.
- It sucks a lot more than anyone is willing to tell anyone else. But it’s space travel, so there’s nothing you could say to some folks to keep them from wanting to do it.
- Space burials will be a thing. There will be discussion of whether or not space burials are a good thing or not. There will be religious discussions about whether or not a person buried in space can be resurrected on Judgement Day.
- Someday a coffin from one of those space burials is going to come crashing to earth and everyone will lose their shit for a week.
- The Moon will be colonized. The Moon Colony will be free from national affiliation. The Moon Colony will have a seat at the UN. Someday, future humans will hear this phrase “Delegates from the Moon declared in the UN today…”
- Mars will also be colonized. The people who live on Mars will get sick of being called Martians and having jokes about “no intelligent life on Mars” lobbed at them.
- We will find life somewhere on another planet. It will be small and it will cause thousands of people to have an existential crisis. There will be rumors that it’s a hoax or a conspiracy.
- Someday we’ll realize to our horror that we’re the resource stealing aliens that we’ve made so many movies about.
- We’re going to name our space ships the most nerdy things imaginable. There will be space cruise liners called The Kirk, The Spock, and The Janeway.
- Despite all the drawbacks, it’s going to an amazing triumph of human curiosity.
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