So, why is it that we aren't travelling to the stars now?
Why was project orion shelved, its a perfectly viable method of space travel yet why with all our modern technology cant we build the dam thing and explore this galaxy? Where does the future of the human race lead if we stay stagnant on this insignificant little blue rock?

to quote xkcd:
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

so /sci/, WHY must humanity be like this. WHY.tiff