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Analysis of Spacecraft Data Reveals Most Earth-like Planet To Date
sciencehabit writes: Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler satellite have boosted the tally of known or suspected planets beyond our solar system to more than 4000, they reported at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Most are inhospitable — too big, too hot, or too cold for any conceivable life form. But another team seeking to verify Kepler candidates announced they had identified eight new potentially habitable planets, including some close to Earth in size and situation. Unpoetically named 5737.01, one candidate has an orbital period of 331 days and is 30% larger than Earth, Mullally says. That’s good news, because scientists here reported yesterday that planets more than 1.6 times the mass of Earth are unlikely to be dense rocky worlds like ours — assumed to be the only plausible habitats for life.
Analysis of Spacecraft Data Reveals Second Most Earth-like Planet To Date
FTFY.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Blame religion.
It is perfectly possible to build a generation ship to reach for the stars and colonize planets thousands of years of travel away.
Just not in the way that we think of generation ships...
Cryo-sleep is how science fiction solves this problem, but the only known state of human that can survive cryogenic freezing is the human embryo. a crew of around 6 females, and 40,000 frozen embryos, a new generation of females is implanted via ivf and then born through live birth every 25-30 years.
Long story short, spreading humanity out across the stars with our current technology would require massive shifts in how humanity sees morality.
Building a colony on mars, populated with people who have free will, and not risking the wrath of the religious right, sure... that's easier.