If, as a species, and we survive the evolutionary lottery, then we must face the fact that Sol, our sun, and central definition of our solar system,.....will die,....then we gotta move it or lose it! Then again,...ain't gonna be a majopr adjustment in solar intensity for a few million years, and humnanity appears to be doomed in the next few millenium,...uh,,,centuries,...uhh
Really,....Homo Sapiens "RULE" upon this plant is short,....sauropods ruled far long and lost,....and,...uh....what was the question again? LOL!
NOPE! Too expensive~ Maybe, just maybe,...Mars! But really,...we over-estimate our capability as as a species,....we ain't all that much in the universe.
Carl96190: A habitable planet would likely already have a dominant intelligent species similar to us in residence. Would you really want to become the villain in an interplanetary war of conquest? Terraforming a planet that had potential would be a more ethical option, but it would take generations. First we have to learn how to travel at warp. Unless we can go faster than light space travel is impractical. For those who have not seent it, the movie Event Horizon explains the theoretical physics of faster-than-light travel in a way that the layman can understand.
I have the video of Event Horizon and the idea of folding space and time like a piece of paper is noble but it would be the same as hopping on the Starship Enterprise. Unless our governments stop the killing and warmongering and focus our energies on building a starship that everyone can benefit from we are going to die on this rock. Our only hope in a realistic way is we need to build a ship in space. Perhaps make it nuclear powered big enough to support many people of value, plant gardens in greenhouses or place people in cryogenic tubes. Even then depending on the propulsion method under nuclear power it would be like a slow boat to China it would take years just to make it to Jupiter let alone outside of our solar system. Arthur C Clark's vision of our future in space is more realistic. A computer to monitor everything and yet the travel experience would be boring for many years. Unless we can be sure of a place to land perhaps there is hope. Perhaps we need to learn about the UFO's spotted since the Roswell incident. Hundreds of sightings since then in various parts of the world yet none have stayed long enough to say hello. They seem to have this space travel stuff down pretty good. Instead of shooting them down or hiding them we need to get their help from them.
Interplanetary Transport Network has already been used.
It's a collection of pathways through the solar system, governed by gravity and predicted by chaos theory, that require little energy for an object to traverse them.
It has been likened to a spatial superhighway winding around the sun, planets and moons that could dramatically cut the amount of fuel needed by spacecraft to explore the solar system.
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