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Originally Posted by jowey
It is imperative that we make the steps to expand before this civilization recycles and loses the ability to make the leap.
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Yeah, to become the trailer trash of the milky way,
"Ohh shit! It's those rimbillies again. Fuckin' spacecraft looks like a bunch of sodapop cans glued together. They're all braggin' about crossing 450 lightyears in a week, and all I can think is, 'Wow, traffic must've stunk.'"
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Just imagine a human that evolves in zero gravity, would an octopus be more comfortable in that environment ?
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According to first novels I wrote they are the ideal astronaut. No bones to decalcify, they have a far better sense of orientation in three dimentional space, they can hold onto something with just one point of contact [with the right design pressuresuit the magnetic pads would be activated by a control fitted to their suckers] and they have innate understanding of EVA movement.