MontanaHatchet on 16 July 2009
Britain explored the world on ships, which have been around for thousands of years, and a long time before them. We have to explore space on rocket ships, which have only been recently made and are still not nearly efficient enough to accomplish the task you described. Space travel is far from the next "thing." It is somewhere down the line, but it's definitely not the next. I would say alternative energy is the next thing, but it doesn't look like anyone is close to that either.
