Love this post. Could you imagine the whole world at peace and all working together in the knowledge that's Man's future lies out in other Galaxies. It's been said that maybe dark holes are portals to other Galaxies or dimensions , as Man is going to have to travel a lot faster than light to just be able to look around our back yard.
The sad thing is as Trekkies, we won't be around to see it.
If some "power" Gave me the choice to suspend my life now and come back in a thousand years, I would take it , even knowing that there's a high chance of returning to total ruin and destruction, because man has fucked up again.
It wouldn't surprise me if aliens had "hovered " in space and observed us , like we would a colony of ants and said "You know what? These cavemen animals are just not ready to know the TRUTH.
@cryptobiker maybe we will get there someday. Things are progressing fast in some regards but I worry that it won't be fast enough. If they could unlock aging as well maybe that could save us.
I certainly feel like an ant when I think about the Cosmos and it would be possible that Aliens have visited and observed us. It is hard to say either way. I mean just the time we spent in the dark ages could give another civilization enough time to develop interstellar travel even in a star system roughly the same age as ours.
To think that Man went from the horse and cart to going to the moon within a hundred years, so technology has gathered pace, but alas we need more time even if we had life extension. That would be for the billionaires