Up, but not Out? Discussing the lack of exploration fics.

[HRogge]

Centauri B and back is less than a week's round trip

Its more like a month for a single trip... a freighter isn't as fast (sublight) as a car... so I would guess 10 days to the limit, a few days between the stars and another 10 days to Centauri B. Maybe even more, depending on the speed of the freighter.

And still, a large colony is expensive.

O would it solve a few problems for us if a few large nations finally decide to have an extrasolar colony? It could be a good money sink and it could have all kinds of interesting political problems.