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by dredmorbius 3936 days ago
"There are good reasons to expect that this will be invalidated somewhen in the next 400 years."

Citation required.

There are awfully good reasons to believe it won't.

https://xkcd.com/1389/

Even people whose job it is to be optimistic about space and science aren't.

Charlie Stross:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high...

"I write SF for a living. Possibly because of this, folks seem to think I ought to be an enthusiastic proponent of space exploration and space colonization. Space exploration? Yep, that's a fair cop — I'm all in favour of advancing the scientific enterprise. But actual space colonisation is another matter entirely, and those of a sensitive (or optimistic) disposition might want to stop reading right now ..."

http://www.space.com/29862-kim-stanley-robinson-aurora-inter...

Kim Stanley Robinson on interstellar / interplanetary colonisation:

"Q: What about interstellar colonization, in particular?"

"A: There are a lot of people, even powerful, influential people, who seem to think that the goal of humanity is to spread itself. I want this book to make people think really hard about — maybe there's only one planet where humanity can do well, and we're already on it."