eburacum
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No, quite the opposite. I think that beamed propulsion (not solar sails, which do not use beams, but rely on ambient sunlight) may be the most realistic option for interstellar travel. Warp drive and wormholes almost certainly do not exist, or if they do, they are of marginal utility; but beamed production could carry data and resources from star A to star B without any imponderable technological advances. They are a brute-force method of transport, but significantly more efficient than rocketry.
I expect we'll be using some sort of beamed propulsion within the next 200 years; getting to the stars would be just a matter of scaling up.
I expect we'll be using some sort of beamed propulsion within the next 200 years; getting to the stars would be just a matter of scaling up.