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[tzfld]

You're right. The timelines are so long, I'm pretty sure more than a few exciting and really expensive space missions you will not see in your lifetime. We are at hundreds of years from real space colonies.

[xvilka → tzfld]

Invest in cryonics and be able to wake up in time.

[neuronic → xvilka]

Entrust your body to a corporation? Only once the end of normal life is nigh anyways.

[Navarr → neuronic]

Welcome to Night Vale has an interesting take on this, which is:

Why should the future care about you or your desires? To the future, you are simply a resource.

[mister_hn → neuronic]

We are just entrusting our minds to Social Networks, so that's not that far from being acceptable

[jotm → tzfld]

On the other hand, the more missions/programs start now, the more excitement there will be in the future when they're being completed. If companies and countries keep at it, it will soon be a long string of space missions in the news.