Shame Dan O'Bannon is gone now, his one famous acting performance is brilliant, his star beast story was awesome and his directing of that zombie film I forget the name of was awesome too. Dark Star is a student film but better than most big budget movies. I think the boiler character actor is gone too.

40 light years away, huh ...

Meh, so what if we found a few more habitable planets. I still think terraforming satellites is going to be the best bet for extraterrestrial colonization for a long while ...

It's cool to think that if you were to jump say... for me it would be just over 33 light years from Earth and have a powerful enough zoom to look back at earth right there... I would be watching the light that left the planet as my parents were taking me home from the hospital.

Light... it's like time travel in a way, it just goes out there forever, capturing moments forever if you could just find the right waves of light that contained your whole life you could watch any part of your past.

Hopefully we can continue to get more good news in the future!

Just don't search up "trump" in the news and you're good to go!

What about "Trump sent to space with no hopes of return"?!

darkenergy said: If only there was an exoplanet that that was only one light year away from Earth

Yeah, then it would only take us 7,500 years to get there, instead of 300,000

In Elite Dangerous (sorta modelled on the real galaxy) there are star systems as close as .2 light years from each other. Ofcourse that close usually means a cluster of young stars with no habitable planets. Yet 1500 years is starting to get reasonable, hmm. Terraforming Mars might be a better waste of time :)

SvennoJ said: darkenergy said: If only there was an exoplanet that that was only one light year away from Earth Yeah, then it would only take us 7,500 years to get there, instead of 300,000 In Elite Dangerous (sorta modelled on the real galaxy) there are star systems as close as .2 light years from each other. Ofcourse that close usually means a cluster of young stars with no habitable planets. Yet 1500 years is starting to get reasonable, hmm. Terraforming Mars might be a better waste of time :)

Or maybe floating cities on Venus. The upper atmosphere is at the right temperature and air pressure as the earth as long as you can stay up there and not fall into the furnace below. I think we are going to need to a moon colony before anything else for ease of building large space craft and launching them unless we develop some sort of anti-gravity device. It's probably going to need fairly advanced robots to precede us to make environments for our arrival. Who no doubt get upset about being sacrified all the time in dangerous environments and end up fighting back and destroying humanity.

Awesome, sonat out current fastest speeds achieved in in space in will only take 800,000 years to reach them!

I'm putting it on my calendar now!