Graphic: Island hopping to the stars

During the first day of the Starship Century Symposium held at UCSD this week, the speakers focused on the more local side of interstellar travel. Physicist and author Freeman Dyson pointed out that Polynesians who migrated across the Pacific did so island-to-island, thousands of years before Europeans sailed the whole ocean at once. Similarly, he argued, humans may reach the stars by visiting many destinations in and around the solar system first. Below are some places mentioned by speakers:


