Okay let's say they discover a Super Earth Planet.

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Only it's 600 light years away.


So?

We'll club together to make a rocket to send you there.

We would then know where THEY are coming from!

We could warn 'em that "we now know where you live!

So stop mutliating our cattle!".

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We'll leave the LHC on, to keep that hole in the Van Allen Belt punched open.

So then NASA needs to hurry up and invent this thing.

http://earthweareone.com/nasa-admits-al ... -of-light/

We should simply be taking care of our Earth so that we don't have to travel for a very long time.

I would say it's too late for that.

Space travel should be the focus nowadays.

Sure ya will

We are humans and I believe it is part of genetic heritage to explore everywhere. We are a weed species, not that I am judging them. The weed species seem to be the hardiest and most successful which is good from a Darwinian pov.

Well according to time dilation, if we were to travel at 90% of the speed of light, it would take us 267 in-spaceship years to get there. If humanity could produce an engine that ran that long and that fast, it's not to difficult to assume the spaceship could also harbor an ecosystem for two or three additional generations of passengers

Source: ftp://www.fourmilab.ch/pub/cship/timedial.html

Of course FTL travel would be even better

It would be far easier to develop technology that improves habitation on Earth than to develop technology to travel 600 light years.

But space travel is a lot more entertaining to discuss, I'll give you that much.

Well...my proposal for that is purely genetic.

An optimistic generation time is 40 years; a more realistic one is 35 years. It will take seven or eight generations rather than two or three.

Even book authors (like Jared Diamond, no less) make that same annoying mistake: using the word "generation"(the timespan between your birth, and the birth of your children) to mean "lifetime" (the timespan from your birth to your death). Like they get a sudden illiteracy attack.

It would take about three lifetimes to do that trip.

But if your astronauts are like Loretta Lynn (mother at 14, grandma at twenty eight) or the residents of the Cabrinni Green Projects (the average age of GRAND mothers also twenty eight) then you would have atleast 19 "generations".

Lol!

Currently the USA does not even have the capability to put anyone in low earth orbit..

Humans are not good at getting into space. Few have spent a half year there. There were problems. We fall apart.

Humans are also not good at building things that can run for hundreds of years.

It takes a long time to get to Mars, because going faster takes more energy, then even more to stop.

Soon the mass increases much faster than the increase in speed can.

We will stay here, now pick up your litter.