Simulation Pinpoints the Most Likely Spots For Life In the Milky Way (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Our home galaxy isn't as hospitable to life as you might think. Cosmic radiation, supernova explosions, and collisions with small galaxies make much of the Milky Way too hellish for biology. But a detailed new simulation locates quiet and fertile cosmic neighborhoods, including a surprising locale: wispy streams of stars flung far beyond the main body of the Milky Way.

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Multinational project to build a star ship

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to get over our fear of nuclear energy, and all nations must come together to build a star ship and explore the universe. Everyone who is willing should contribute - from top-level physicists to school children. All nations must be allowed to contribute, from agrarian cultures to space-faring nations.

We need to set apart our differences and come together under a unified project of a grand scale. No one nation can build something like the Enterprise. It will take the collective will of every nation on Earth to see a project like this through to completion.

As long as we're fighting each other in war and eating meat this can never happen, unfortunately.

What about that other galaxy,

[Black Parrot]

far, far away?