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Seared_Beans t1_j779zs3 wrote

Reply to comment by Putin_Delenda_Est in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent

Not to mention interstellar travel won't be feasible for hundreds of years. We gotta focus on more pertinent things

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j77c6ud wrote

I’m sure this paper isn’t going to stop us from figuring out how to stop climate change.

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Pigs_in_the_Porridge t1_j79cpl0 wrote

Why should that be the expectation? Can't you think of other reasons to find habitable planets other than some supposed place for us to flee to (which is a dumb idea).

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Tobias_Atwood t1_j7allh2 wrote

Humans have had an insatiable urge to explore, chart, and colonize every square inch of habitable land for as long as we've been humans.

The morass of space will not stop us. We will spread and claim and consume until we have conquered every last bit of empty of space in the galaxy. Even if it takes us a million years.

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timberwolf0122 t1_j78gq0l wrote

Well, interstellar probe travel should be possible before then, but humans are leaving the solar system anytime soon without some revolution in tech.

One day we will make it, probably in massive several km long O’Neil cylinders powered by nuclear drives able to scavenge interstellar gasses.

First though we should be looking get a dyson ring round the sun to solve power needs

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mypantsareonmyhead t1_j78yy0o wrote

>Not to mention interstellar travel won't be feasible for hundreds of years

Based on what, exactly?

This is nonsense.

Interstellar travel may NEVER be feasible.

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