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Originally Posted by speede5
Does it really matter though? Even if we found a planet out there like Earth, what is the point? The human race probably won't survive long enough to have the technology to travel to it, communicate with it, or even get a close look at it. Given the rate we are filling the earth with people, our consuption of natural resources, we are headed for extinction pretty quickly, in the grand scheme of things. Unless by some miracle we figure out how to warp travel in the next hundred years or so, we're going to die staring at the sky. Heck I'd be surprized if we even see the day man lands on Mars, much less a planet in another solar system. Maybe I'm just missing the point.
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Unfortunately it'll take something like near extinction before we'll be forced to start researching and developing the technology to do something productive in terms of space travel. People who say there are problems on Earth and we shouldn't even bother with manned space travel at all seem to me at least to be somewhat short sighted... It's like putting all your eggs in one basket. Mars, maybe in our lifetime if only the political will existed for the project to get restarted.