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NASA has finally decided that the general public is open minded enough to reveal to us the discovery of a "Earth-like" Exo-Planet.

Watch them fake an invasion and 1/3 of the population actually believe it...

Seriously though, this is ground breaking stuff, glad to be alive to witness it.

I notice that people on NB only take notice of controversial trash topics... So what does this mean for religion?
 
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Lemmy guess. It's thousands of light years away. :|
We're never gonna witness ourselves unless we invent hyperspace drives. ..
 

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Hmm interesting. How far away from Earth is it?
 

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too bad I'll die before we migrate.
 
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The planet is 1,400 light-years away from our Solar System. I shall fetch my running boots :3.
 

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Good luck to NASA reaching that shit xD 1400 light years? Ya they need all the luck in this world lol.
 

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Would love to be alive to see what life lives there & to possibly migrate. It won't happen though :(
 

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Ooh it is bigger than ours. How dandy.

Lets spread some democracy, peace and moral beliefs there. 3 things we always talk the most yet practice the least.
 

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Ooh it is bigger than ours. How dandy.

Lets spread some democracy, peace and moral beliefs there. 3 things we always talk the most yet practice the least.

Once America figures out how to get people there safely, we'll be delivering some hot and ready FREEDOM SAUCE!
 

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Ooh it is bigger than ours. How dandy.

Lets spread some democracy, peace and moral beliefs there. 3 things we always talk the most yet practice the least.

What if the green men there neither allow migration nor have oil?
 

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What if the green men there neither allow migration nor have oil?

OMG! That's racist! You can't assume all green men are the same!
 

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Interstellar called it first though, too if of a coincidence since we got a movie on it not to long ago? I think not
 

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What if the green men there neither alllow migration nor have oil?

They might have another source of energy that can replace oil, something the "earthlings" will surely fight for.
 

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Woah this is actually awesome.

Now all we need to do is take all the possible inhabitant's land, kill off all "violent" natives, and spread the word of Jesus.
 

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What if the green men there neither allow migration nor have oil?

Because oil is really going to be a concern when we can launch ourselves 1,400 lightyears.

Generally speaking, by time we have the capability to traverse interstellar space, it will be just as easy to build deep space colonies as it will to search out planets that we could colonize. The time and energy invested in constructing a known quantity is less than the time and energy spent investigating entirely unknown quantities.

That won't stop us from looking to colonize other worlds - but the reality is that anything that is inhabited by a sentient species is not worth even the risk of announcing our presence to (particularly if they have comparable space travel capabilities). If a planet is inhabited - just move on and continue building colonies.

I imagine there will still be wars in space - but they will most likely be 'civil wars' fought amongst a species rather than two species fighting each other. Humans will have plenty of reason to fight each other over territory we occupy - claims to asteroid mining, specific holdings on a colony, etc. For a species that has no vested interest in a territory they happen across and find to be occupied - it would be quite the rare instance for there to be a resource worth going against an established system's industry to acquire.

While advancement is difficult to predict - I expect we will be performing experiments on 'jump drives' within the next 100 years. IE - a device that allows a ship to simply shift into a position many lightyears away (though I imagine the first experiments will be on the order of a few thousand kilometers).

Of course, people 30 years ago were predicting flying cars and other such things by now - so it's kind of hard to predict which direction things will go.
 
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Imagine if we could travel the 1400 and lightyears and found that there had been a mistake - that there was no planet there. Be a long trip home
 
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