I’ve always been a big fan of Star Trek so I’m sad that I’ll probably never live long enough to see humanity terraform and colonize another planet. Imagining a whole planet full of mysteries like ours is just mind-blowingly astounding to me that if I could, I’d freeze myself until such time as we have a working habitat on some other planet. It may be that humans would do this first to the moon, then Mars, then maybe some intra-solar moons, but what I hope to see is a planet with actual plant life, climate like ours, or animals. To see how a totally alien animal evolved would be a dream!
On the same vein, though this could happen tomorrow technically, I want to see real life sentient aliens. I’d probably be scared shitless, but I want to see aliens
Also flying cars. We’ve been promised flying cars for hundred years in sci-fi, its time real sci delivered! :mad::mad:
Lunar colonies. I’ve heard about the people who are trying to recruit colonists for a one-way trip to Mars, but even if we make the (generous) assumption that those plans are serious, we all know anyone who gets sent to Mars any time soon is not going to die from old age, if you get my drift. I figure, serious attempts at a lunar colony are at least a century away, with a Martian colony probably a few decades after that.
As a teenager, I read a couple of books by Gerard K O’Neill describing how colonies could be built at the L5 point using material gathered from the moon. I dreamed of living on one of these colonies.
I may see 2050. I was born in 1954, just barely, and my grandmother lived to be almost 108. I’m actually looking forward to 2026, the 250th anniversary of the USA. I had to spend most of 1976 out of the country, in Korea, and I really missed all the hoopla.
