Which era would you like to live in and why?

@UndeadPrivateer "One way" is a given. We are generations away from launching a survivable craft achieving any significant faction of light speed. Most likely it will not happen. 7.3 billion mouths and assholes will see to that. We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction RIGHT NOW. Perhaps you will expand your studies of the science to incorporate the more mundane. We're not going anywhere when the oceans are one big algae plume, and the rain forests are gone, and the coral reefs are dead. No bio-diversity = no us. Chew on it. ( I mean that in a constructive way) I am not trying to 'one up' you. Rather, I implore you to employ your obvious intelligence to immediate realities.

@zhafar The immediate reality is that Earth is changing and we cannot stay here. But that solution isn't an interstellar one, it's an interplanetary one, and people [i]are[/i] actively working on that. I'd personally much rather be beyond this feudal and petty period of humanity we're in right now is the big point, which was what the question was asking about.

If we're doomed to extinction then so be it, the galaxy is probably better off. No one knows the future for sure though and what happens will happen, it'll probably be something far stranger than either of us have in mind.

We humans have great potential. Let us hope. I think the Moon would be an excellent lab for survivability in space, and a great jumping point. However, zillions of species have come and gone before we showed up. When we ponder the expanse of our Universe..... Many great civilizations have most likely come and gone. Some may coexist with us. The possibilities are astounding.I don't think we are a "flash in the pan", though I do despair at times. I dearly wish for a happy and fulfilling life for our children, so on, and on. It may be unrealistic, but that is why we harbor the notion of 'hope'.