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Great comments, FrankC, and thanks for responding. I find myself in agreement with most of what you say, although lately I have become very pessimistic about our future in space, mostly because of social and political developments here on earth. I also think that there will be few technological breakthroughs like we have been used to for the last couple of centuries. Future technologies will be like computers, very capable and useful, but not magic. Nano and bio tech and AI may transform our lives, but they won't translate to faster spacecraft. Lately, I've even given up hope on SETI; I believe they're out there, I just think they're so different from us we may not even recognize each other as sentient.

But the one capacity the universe seems to have in spades is the ability to always surprise us. Nothing we've discovered so far was anticipated, and I'm convinced the future is going to have many shockers for us, both good and bad. It is too premature to give up yet.

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