https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...h-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around "NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water..."
I wonder how exactly they're planning to look for alien life there considering how far away they are.
Read an article on that topic earlier today, it said that solar system with the 7 liveable planets has 10 trillions years life expectancy, our miserable solar system only has 5 billion years or so, some days I wonder if it's even worth saving for the next generations ! Who knows how technology will evolve, 40 light years might no be too far billion of years from now for a species facing relocation or extinction.
Clearly somebody needs to figure out a transport method that can take us through space at multiples of the speed of light. Elon? Anybody?
Even reaching speeds that are a fraction of the speed of light would be a massive breakthrough. I doubt that our generation would see such a breakthrough become a reality though.
God no. We already ruined this planet. We have pcb and gmo everywhere. Lets kill all the criminals and morons. Then maybe we can go there and start fresh, as long as no one else is already there.
Warp is already done. And I'm not referring to the nasa stuff. We passed star trek decades ago, at least. I've even built some of the stuff, but its dangerous. We found a way to make copious quantities of antimatter, then found out it was going to kill everything on earth. Then found out how to reverse it. Worm holes and warp are the same thing, its just warp is half a worm hole. Warp is better. "Stable" worm holes are constantly damaging all the life around them. Also every time you warp or get near any spatial distortion it makes you stupid. I don't know exactly why but it does. The closer you are and the steeper the distortion the dumber you get. Any high-entropy condition is also dangerous. The first time you stand next to a jet engine when it fires up you can feel it suck out some of your soul, if you are healthy. No joke. If you don't believe me ask a technician that worked on military jets. Even large car engines put a constant limit on the vibrance of those who go near them. Have you noticed that there are a lot more stories of the ground opening up in florida and other places? There is a thruster that has the side effect of "shrinking" molecules. I have no idea how this happens from a physics standpoint but I suspect garage experimenters are building this thruster, testing it, and months later the floor of the garage caves in. If you look in the bottom and can find an impermeable depression you will find "condensed" ground water or mud that is way more dense than heavy water or any other fluid you can find. You can stand on it. It might be covered by regular water though. Anything more high tech than sticks and rocks is ill advised. Even then you'd be surprised at how dangerous sticks and rocks can be if you knew all there is to know about them. So far every form of "magic" / "sci-fi" technology we have found turned out to be miraculously bad. That doesn't mean we can't go to other planets, but its one of many reasons that make doing so questionable. I only know of two thruster-type technologies that seem to have the potential of being harmless and getting us to another star in a reasonable time. Plus another two that might be usable if done very carefully and responsibly.