“Time for what?”
“Time for us to get out there, mankind has sat around and allowed his tomorrows to become yesterdays. You and I are in our late thirties now, and while it's cool to be on Mars, I wonder if the only reason we're here now, is not because of that damn AI,” she said.
“I hadn't thought about it that way,” he said. “You might be right, we could still be thrashing about on Earth for whatever company is pretending to want to go to Mars just to get the government's money.”
“So, we have a new goal, just like Mars was our goal when we were thirteen. But this one is never ending, because once this galaxy is teeming with life, there are 200 billion others to explore. I can't imagine what those in that far time will discover, for us though, the Solar System is enough,” said Laura.