NASA has found 7 earth sized planets around a single star outside our solar system!

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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.