Elon Musk: “Don’t mind me, just cleaning up some dusty old servers back here and removing possible political potholes for powerful assholes in the 1%”

I laughed way too hard at this. Watched every ep on YouTube during the pandemic and was amazed by the sheer number of Roman artifacts spread throughout the English countryside. You can’t walk a mile without tripping over a piece of Roman pottery, caldinium, or tesserae.

Travel between planetary bodies is painfully slow. Maybe 20-30 years we will have tourism between low earth orbit and the moon. I mean, like airplane fare level not “I’m richer than you” travel. Between mars and the gas giants will probably be another 50-60 years when we start mining asteroids and gasses like helium and such. We will still be using fuels like now, only we will be making fuel in space and working in orbit, but this most likely be automated and controlled by humans on earth/moon/mars.

Cowboy Bebop, things like terraforming and artificial gravity, etc. who knows. Science Fiction has surprisingly caught up with science in many elements of the genre. But man, I’d say maybe 400 years is a little optimistic but also possible with the way tech is moving.