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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm almost 50 years old and I've been hearing about this for almost 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Curse that Gene Roddenberry!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The fact that you can even be indignant about not having the technology to travel to another solar system developed within a single lifetime is pretty amazing considering it took us billions of years to get here.