Subject: Re: To infinity and beyond
Exactly. The technology exists today to get us to Mars. But any astronauts either wouldn't survive the journey, or would be ill and die before they could get back.

Also...just a quibble...we (mankind) are not destined to do anything. That would imply a plan; a puppetmaster. There is no evidence of such. We are driven to expand, likely a survival instinct. But we are not destined or preordained to do anything, except maybe die**.



**We all will die. It's just a question of terminology. It's inevitable, unavoidable, but not "destiny".