http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8937173/Nasas-Kepler-space-telescope-finds-new-Earth.html
As they say: this might be the next destination for humanity. Based on several science-fiction stories, such as Asimov novels, or Avatar, we imagine humanity spreading out all over the Universe. And how good it would be! Only... we need to find a way to go faster than with speed of light... If we go 5x quicker than light to reach Proxima Centaury, the nearest star, which might take a lifetime. What will the passengers eat and breathe? I can imagine planting a rainforest into the spaceship (like in Passenger) and placing something like the Sun on the wall, also, we'd need man-made gravity, or special type of plants (/humans as well).
To reach Kepler 22b, the "other Earth", 600 light years away well... teleport!
Even so, what if there already is life on this planet?...
I certainly don't mean neither the Avatar-like life form, neither the regular Hollywood aliens, who scare the hell out of me. Still, in this case, we would end up occupying their space. Or could evolution have gone another way...? Yet, if there is a species that thinks the way we do, or even has similar technology, they will certainly fight against us, or at least would be cautious as would we.
There will be a space ethics handbook, once we comply with the improvements needed to reach any other planet (the Moon is not even a planet and then we haven't gotten to Mars yet...)
Well, it is not likely there is life on those other planets though. Especially not a life that is technically able to do what we aren't - so I find it unlikely there would be aliens coming to us... Humanity could end up destroying themselves - so could have other "intelligent" life-forms that would be able to travel to space. Hmm I mean, before getting here.
The reason I'm so interested in this topic is that yet if a few scientists get there, we may get answers to more than one question.
As they say: this might be the next destination for humanity. Based on several science-fiction stories, such as Asimov novels, or Avatar, we imagine humanity spreading out all over the Universe. And how good it would be! Only... we need to find a way to go faster than with speed of light... If we go 5x quicker than light to reach Proxima Centaury, the nearest star, which might take a lifetime. What will the passengers eat and breathe? I can imagine planting a rainforest into the spaceship (like in Passenger) and placing something like the Sun on the wall, also, we'd need man-made gravity, or special type of plants (/humans as well).
To reach Kepler 22b, the "other Earth", 600 light years away well... teleport!
Even so, what if there already is life on this planet?...
I certainly don't mean neither the Avatar-like life form, neither the regular Hollywood aliens, who scare the hell out of me. Still, in this case, we would end up occupying their space. Or could evolution have gone another way...? Yet, if there is a species that thinks the way we do, or even has similar technology, they will certainly fight against us, or at least would be cautious as would we.
There will be a space ethics handbook, once we comply with the improvements needed to reach any other planet (the Moon is not even a planet and then we haven't gotten to Mars yet...)
Well, it is not likely there is life on those other planets though. Especially not a life that is technically able to do what we aren't - so I find it unlikely there would be aliens coming to us... Humanity could end up destroying themselves - so could have other "intelligent" life-forms that would be able to travel to space. Hmm I mean, before getting here.
The reason I'm so interested in this topic is that yet if a few scientists get there, we may get answers to more than one question.
