WinterBorn
Diamond Member
I think all world powers should come together to build a generation ship and we should send it to proxima centauri b!
Benefits
1. China, russia and the United states would work together which would promote peace.
2. Millions of high paying jobs
3. The next generation growing up feeling that they can do anything and work to become the next generation of explorers and scientist.
A generation ship
Generation ship - Wikipedia or Interstellar ark - Wikipedia
The goal isn't to get to such a planet in one generation, but to make a ship in which many generations of humans can live until it reaches said planet.
I believe once we confirm an Atmosphere that we should go for it and colonist this planet. It would insure our species has a second home and proxima b will probably last much longer then our sun(probably at least 10 times longer).
How Do Stars Die and How Long Do Stars Live? | Sky & TelescopeThe smallest stars in the universe have exceedingly long lives — in fact, none have faced their end yet. Red dwarfs, stars with less than 0.4 solar masses, burn so slowly that they might live to 100 billion years old, much longer than the current age of the universe.
two planets - less chance of extinction be it from asteroid, quasar or nuclear war.
I am all for space travel and research. However, there are a few problems with this idea.
First, I don't think China, Russia and the US could work together on a large scale. I could see the conservatives crying that white people invented everything but we always get shafted. The liberals would cry about Maori tribes being underrepresented in the work.
And these millions of high paying jobs? Who is paying them?
As for the next generation, how would they feel they could do anything? The would likely be only a minor part of the design crew. As a portion of the population, they would need less so they would get less. And only 75 to 100 of them are going. So the vast majority of the next generation would be doing manual labor or be a cog in the wheel so that someone else gets to explore space.
Sorry top be a downer. But I am a pragmatist.