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It would be fascinating to see how human culture develops on a new world. It’s one of the reasons I’m half convinced we’ll have multiple planetary nations in the future, because given long enough the “Martians”, filled with a frontier spirit, might wonder why distant Earth gets to tell them what...

So, if I understand that correctly, the probe would attempt to slingshot around Jupiter and the Sun? In some science fiction, that's how they make big jumps between star systems.

Sometimes we forget just how far we’ve come as a species in a mere few centuries. I think by 2179 we’ll have visited all of those worlds at this rate. Ion Drives, Nuclear Propulsion, SpaceX’s Starship, etc, will usher in a new age of colonisation and exploration. Just need to figure out the...