Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

Won't dreams stay dreams?

There's literally nothing there, why go all that way? The distances are so incredibly vast. It seems like we ought to be content with staying put.

All life on Earth is going die. Humanity has never been content with staying put, why would we start now? And what do you mean "literally nothing there"? The universe has a loooooot of stuff in it.

> The universe has a loooooot of stuff in it.

In fact, technically, there's nothing here. It's all out there.

The Sun: 99.86% of the solar system's total mass.

Jupiter: ~0.095% of the total mass, and ~71% of the non-solar mass.

Saturn: ~0.03% of the total mass, and ~19% of the non-solar mass.

Uranus and Neptune: Contribute a small percentage to the remaining non-solar mass.

All other objects: (inner planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc.) account for less than 0.002% of the solar system's total mass.

Your brain mass is about 3 disposable water bottles in weight and we can debate what parts of that are thinking and actually "you".

You are insignificant on the scale of the solar system let alone the universe.