We need to get more people interested in space. It’s absolutely horrifying when platitudes like “we only have one planet, so save it and hug a tree, hehe” quickly become “we cannot find any earth like worlds within at least 400 lightyears of us, where the unit of measure is the distance crossed by light in one year. Any ELWs we do find may be utterly devoid of life, and will take 10 centuries to seed with oxygen producing bacteria and another 10 for life to take hold as we know it.”
We are utterly alone. We do not have the technology to travel for 700+ years, and another 1000+ before the world is ready. We don’t have the technology of archive and store copies of living and dead species. We need many centuries of R&D before we invent (near) light speed travel and the other technologies to support generation ships that can survive for millenia out in the black between stars.
We need to get more people interested in space. It’s absolutely horrifying when platitudes like “we only have one planet, so save it and hug a tree, hehe” quickly become “we cannot find any earth like worlds within at least 400 lightyears of us, where the unit of measure is the distance crossed by light in one year. Any ELWs we do find may be utterly devoid of life, and will take 10 centuries to seed with oxygen producing bacteria and another 10 for life to take hold as we know it.”
We are utterly alone. We do not have the technology to travel for 700+ years, and another 1000+ before the world is ready. We don’t have the technology of archive and store copies of living and dead species. We need many centuries of R&D before we invent (near) light speed travel and the other technologies to support generation ships that can survive for millenia out in the black between stars.