You know, the more I read about space exploration, the more convinced I am that we will probably never colonise other planets in a significant manner; over 90% of all planets are either too far or too close to their sun, gas giants or lacking a critical element, be it water, magnetic field or atmosphere. And even if we were to find a suitable planet, it would be so far away, that our spaceship would not physically and technologically withstand the journey.
And aliens, although I am sure they exist, I fear we won't meet any for a long, long time, since habitable planets are so few and far between and the ones that harbour intelligent, advanced life in the same period of our existence are likely to be out of reach. (I realise that the conditions for the evolution of life need not be the same for every species; in fact, they may vary wildly, but still the odds are against one such encounter.)
I don't mean to be a party buster... I'm just really annoyed (
) I wasn't born a thousand years from now, in a time when we'll have spaceships possibly advanced enough to make it to the final frontier.
