... is that it solves the short term problem of "I want to go there, but I can't".
It does nothing about the fact that if human beings are to outlive our current home then we HAVE to find a way to journey into the stars.
And that isn't necessarily about out-living the sun (measured - we hope - still in hundreds of million if not billions of years). It also means the possibility in decades, centuries or millenia to come of a good ol' fashioned "ELE" - to use the "Deep Impact" term.
The trouble with living in the information age is that timing "news" stories to appear on a precise date, even with a 24 hour window, can be quite difficult.
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... is that it solves the short term problem of "I want to go there, but I can't". It does nothing about the fact that if human beings are to outlive our current home then we HAVE to find a way to journey into the stars. And that isn't necessarily about out-living the sun (measured - we hope - still in hundreds of million if not billions of years). It also means the possibility in decades, centuries or millenia to come of a good ol' fashioned "ELE" - to use the "Deep Impact" term.
The trouble with living in the information age is that timing "news" stories to appear on a precise date, even with a 24 hour window, can be quite difficult.