Soupnazi630
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There certainly is a way off this rock, there are people orbiting above it as we speak. The issue is a reliable, cheap, and ideally reusable lifter to get us to orbit and beyond. Fortunately we're undergoing a veritable renaissance in space development driven largely (but not exclusively) by the emergence of the commercial space sector. There are multiple competing plans for a reusable space vehicle and no small hope that one of them may succeed. Hundreds of years? I really don't think so.
Plus if we really, really needed to there are ways to throw a ton of mass into orbit (and beyond) that we could opt to.
Ok I should have been more specific.
There is no permanent way off of this rock.
No technology can get us to another world to live on which was the point ofthe discussion. We are centuries if not millenis away from such technological ability.
Going into orbit is meaningless to this end