FA_Q2
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I disagree. I think you could manage it right now if we had reliable info on another planet and the financial backing. There are 7 BILLION people on this planet. Many of them want to do some AMAZINGLY asinine shit. Traveling to another planet will get plenty of volunteers. What is missing is the enormous expense that would take and the information that such a trip would yield results.Meh - there is already something far more valuable on any garden world than those - land.What's a time horizon? They are hoping they can get them there in 20 years and send the info back in 4. That's not too long to wait.Very interesting. That would make exploration of the closest stars very plausible and affordable.Basically a space probe on a microchip with a sail propelled by a laser. They can reach alpha centauri in 20 years. They travel 1/5 the speed of light.
Each space probe costs as much as an iPhone.
To bad that these things will always have such a large time horizon.
So we have telescopes finding thousands of moons and planets that could hold life and these spaceships cost as much as an iPhone to make. We can send out as many of these chips as we want and if any life is intelligent maybe they'll find them. What would we do if we discovered a spaceship like this from another planet?
Or id love to find a planet that has everything we need but no intelligent life.
What if we found a planet with humans but they are more like native American Indians? Would we do it the same way again? I would hope not but suspect we would.
And what if they were 1% smarter than us? How would they welcome us? Would they experiment on us like we would them?
Id love a planet with no humans and no dinosaurs
We would just tell ourselves that the planet or moon had huge deposits of gold or diamonds or some other expensive desirable stuff right on the surface so any explorer volunteers would become instantly incredibly wealthy for their efforts.
It will take a VERY long time to get any appreciable number of people to hop on a space craft and travel possibly for 2 or three generations just so they can have more elbow room.