Potentially habitable planet found

[illini43]

So what is the point of trying to visit these places if no one will be on Earth if/when the travellers reach the planet?

[PairTheBoard]

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So what is the point of trying to visit these places if no one will be on Earth if/when the travellers reach the planet?

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Adventure. Curiousity. And people may very well survive on Earth long into the future. It might be fun communicating with the people who will be living 10,000 years from now. What a view of Future History you would get by travelling on that ship. You would stay in continuous communication the whole way. Your Spacecraft evening news report would would cover Events of several Earth Years. You could watch a new Presidential Election every night. Think of all the Blogs you could read. Might be tough keeping up with the Scientific Journals though.

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[PairTheBoard]

You know, if you skillfully managed your investments back on Earth while on the trip you could be awfully rich when you got back.

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[thylacine]

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So what is the point of trying to visit these places if no one will be on Earth if/when the travellers reach the planet?

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Adventure. Curiousity. And people may very well survive on Earth long into the future. It might be fun communicating with the people who will be living 10,000 years from now. What a view of Future History you would get by travelling on that ship. You would stay in continuous communication the whole way. Your Spacecraft evening news report would would cover Events of several Earth Years. You could watch a new Presidential Election every night. Think of all the Blogs you could read. Might be tough keeping up with the Scientific Journals though.

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And each new president would launch a new expedition, with improved technology, to overtake the previous one and beat them to the planet. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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So what is the point of trying to visit these places if no one will be on Earth if/when the travellers reach the planet?

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Adventure. Curiousity. And people may very well survive on Earth long into the future. It might be fun communicating with the people who will be living 10,000 years from now. What a view of Future History you would get by travelling on that ship. You would stay in continuous communication the whole way. Your Spacecraft evening news report would would cover Events of several Earth Years. You could watch a new Presidential Election every night. Think of all the Blogs you could read. Might be tough keeping up with the Scientific Journals though.

PairTheBoard

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And each new president would launch a new expedition, with improved technology, to overtake the previous one and beat them to the planet. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Maybe. But they wouldn't have as pleasant a trip if they go faster than 1-g. On the other hand, they could send ahead supplies for you. Maybe even seed the planet.

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[thedude4life]

since radio transmissions travel at the speed of light i doubt we will have constant updates from the crew. or are we assuming new technology that bypasses this?