As much as I would love to put faith in humanity as a whole, I get the feeling we will have destroyed ourselves long before we get to the technological level required to explore and expland across the universe in reasonable amounts of time, which I do believe would be possible some day. If this is it, well its not much to look forward to for the future of life, is it really? Especially when you consider that one day were likely to face an ELE anyway.
Humanity cant even cap the population, breed breed breed will surely end up being our demise one way or another as war over land/resources intensifies, or maybe this kind of war will create the tech needed?
The sky was super clear on Saturday night, I was looking into the sky for a good 10 minutes, inspirational but I dont rate humanities chances, but hey everyone loves an underdog