Earth twin

Recently, a highly respected and much read science fiction and horror story writer stated that starships will never be more than science fiction. I respectfully disagree. Well yes, I did write that Starship Paradigm blog here, and yes right now you could say it is more fiction than fact, but that will change.

We will confirm that life exists in other solar systems,  We will continue to also admit that reaching any of those possible Earth twins is a big dream.  It is a dream because of the immense distances and the current dangers, as we know them, that could hamper any exploration. So what is new?  Relatively speaking, every exploration humankind has undertaken in its history has presented us with extreme distances and possible dangers. We responded by following the dream regardless of either distances or dangers.

So, now after centuries of exploratory successes and rewards, we are going to stop because of distances and dangers?  I do not think so, and those vessels that carried early explorers to the "edges of Earth" and beyond will become our starship vessels.