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[jackson33]

in agreeing with your conclusion, the reasons may be determined in the need for human interaction. machines, whether robotic or instrumental are far more accurate than a human, not subject to conditions and capable limitation only to the power available.

unless C plus speed is attained and to many times C, mans desire for lifetime spent attempting inter-galactic travel will never be a reality, a thousand or tens of thousand years in the future. though i think the life span in the distant future could be increased, the body modified to adapt to conditions now not imaginable and the brain conditioned to operate also beyond current imagination, so will the technology for the alternative means to achieve observations, even communications with other places in this galaxy or others as time progresses.