Hi All,
Of the hundred million viewership count for a big sporting event how many of them actually watch the match live in the stadium; not more than a couple of thousand or may be a hundred thousand if it's something rare, similarly I personally don't feel many of us will ever visit outer space or some fancy new planets even in next 300 years and frankly with robotics advancing at a pace faster than our pace of advancement in space travel technologies it would only be a matter of prestige or a rare reason to embark on a deep space manned project beyond mars and not due to a genuine scientific exploratory premise.
Now I know what you must be thinking that my views are too pessimistic but I beg to differ and in fact I think this will happen in just 30 years now suddenly I must be sounding a bit too enthusiastic or a fan of Elon musk but no I am just suggesting that this will happen with the help of not our rockets but our visualization software, zettaflop level supercomputer ran simulations and giant telescopes which are being planned by various organizations as well as deep space based telescopes which will offer us and when I say "us" it means the global middle class and not just the millionaires or billionaires with an opportunity to experience the landscapes of other planets and virtually visit other planets from the comfort of our PC or virtual reality devices and in some cases specially designed theatres for this sole purpose; now jump a fifty or a hundred years more and you will realize the potential and scope of this phenomenon of virtually visiting other planets and asteroids with ever improving technologies and ultimately this might develop into a new form of entertainment industry with the help our future generations who would have by then grown allergic to what we today perceive as entertainment just like people now don't watch gladiator style battles in stadiums but prefer to play a Xbox or PlayStation game instead however I conveniently forgot to mention the scripted WWE matches which the people still enjoy
my bad
