> Plus, unless you want to go screaming by on a fly-by mission
In space, no one can hear you go screaming by.
In any case, terraforming some of the rocks we can reach (Mars, Venus, et. al), while an enormous undertaking, might be a more solvable problem than FTL travel (because the latter is most likely impossible, while the former is merely insanely difficult and impractical). The problem is terraforming projects would likely be multi-century efforts requiring some level of international cooperation, so... yea, we're stuck here.
In space, no one can hear you go screaming by.
In any case, terraforming some of the rocks we can reach (Mars, Venus, et. al), while an enormous undertaking, might be a more solvable problem than FTL travel (because the latter is most likely impossible, while the former is merely insanely difficult and impractical). The problem is terraforming projects would likely be multi-century efforts requiring some level of international cooperation, so... yea, we're stuck here.