What we do now is not traveling space.
Only peaceful races survive, evolve, flourish and are allowed to travel.
We would never be allowed to travel out there, the way we are.
We do not even have all of the materials on our world to travel space.
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The concept of an advanced war in space is an oxymoron.
A race that is not peaceful and trustworthy is not even allowed to travel.
Humans would not be allowed to travel if we could yet.
Going to Mars is not considered travel yet.
We do not even have all the materials on Earth that we will need to truly travel, and no other race would give them to us as we are.