Space travel is boring

[Tweedledee]

Even at the speed of light.

 

This video is a trip from the sun to Jupiter at light speed via Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. At least it gives the times to slide it to for each planet. You'll get bored by 20 lightseconds out from the sun... 

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/a-trip-from-the-sun-to-jupiter-at-the-speed-of-light-bring-a-sandwich

[Dean Watson]

This is the thing isnt it.  As a species we dream of going to the stars and yet by virtue of our biology and psychology are fundamentally ill equipped for it.  We talk about our 'manifest destiny' and how to survive ultimately we need to get off this world to new ones (all of which both solar system and extrasolar - the ones we know of - are so unsuited for us, even if Earth were majorly environmentally screwed up, it would still be much better for life support than anything else we know of) - I refer to much of Hawkings down the pub blather - stick to black holes Stephen..., not forgetting of course that only a miniscule percentage of Humans are ever likely to do this anyway.

 

To even slightly cope with the distances and environments involved Humans would need to change so much as to be not even recognisable as such anymore,  Again, not forgetting that evolution doesn't work that way.

 

And yet...and yet...