Why the theophobia? Don't be intolerant.
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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It's a shame none of us around today will likely be around when the real exploration starts. Still, knowing what's out there and the endless possibilities that we haven't scratched the surface of makes you feel small in the best way possible. Here's to one day crashing their party and trading the natives some space beads for their most valuable property.
Yeah, all you have to have are the right temperatures, ingredients, a little energy and boom! Life happens!
Are we there yet?And the official NASA release:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth
Might take a few minutes to get there...
