Reply #7: Then we switch to Thorium, we have 1000 years supply [View All]

[txlibdem]

And you can even extract Thorium from sea water.

If we're not colonizing space in 1000 years then we deserve to become extinct. Mining the asteroids and the Oort Cloud for more Thorium would enable us to power our civilization for another million years before we need to look to other solar systems for our natural resources.

A million years should be about enough time for them to perfect Nuclear Fusion. It's always "just another 50 years away" because we keep paying scientists to "study" nuclear fusion. We should pay them to commercialize it, not study it. Stop paying scientists until they produce. Give them food and water and a spartan apartment while they are working on it. Once they perfect nuclear fusion power and make it commercially viable then all the researchers get a mansion and a 150 foot yacht. I'll bet you'll see nuclear fusion becoming commercially viable mighty damn quick.