Space exploration might end before it even begins

[Starbeast]

I'm certain people will find a solution to this issue. But I'm afraid the setback might be something our generation will not see resolved.

When I was a kid, the future looked so bright for Earth's people, I couldn't wait for the year 2000. Looking toward the future from the early 1970's, seemed like space travel, androids, united peace, etc. was going to happen. But staggering through the following decades, turned my smile upside-down. The big picture sank in, I'm not going into space. Ah, well. I can dream about it.

 

[Vareor]

When I was a kid, the future looked so bright for Earth's people, I couldn't wait for the year 2000. Looking toward the future from the early 1970's, seemed like space travel, androids, united peace, etc. was going to happen. But staggering through the following decades, turned my smile upside-down. The big picture sank in, I'm not going into space. Ah, well. I can dream about it.

Well, at least you’re not the only one.
I thought we would find out more about the dark playground we are hurling through, by now. I hoped we would at least unravel the mysteries behind black holes, or find alien civilizations. But I don’t think either of us will be around to see the end of these stories, either.

On another note, I must admit, you’ve set the bar very high for humanity with that last part of expectations (united peace, I mean).

 

[Starbeast]

On another note, I must admit, you’ve set the bar very high for humanity with that last part of expectations (united peace, I mean).

I didn't set "the bar" for united peace. We as kids, long ago, were repeatedly promised that...................................I'm outta here.

 

[Dave]

@Starbeast is correct. If you read short-stories and novels of the late-50's and early-60's or watch TV of that era, after having lived through two world wars, and the threat of a nuclear world war, they were all about a wonderful future of flying cars, atomic trains, weather control, space travel, three-day-working weeks (with endless leisure opportunities) and an end to poverty and malnutrition, and world peace was a given. And the fast pace of new scientific discoveries and technological invention meant that it was all going to come very soon, usually it was within the next 50 years.