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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by NickBusey on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#13707724)
Why not just make that first payload contain actual humans? Seems a helluva lot simpler.
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by imglorp on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:24PM (#13707757)
Yup, for several hundred thousand year's journey. No problem. :-)

I would just hope my emacs session will stay up that long.

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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by marrone12 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:58PM (#13708143)
Interstellar tramp.
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by macintux on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:08PM (#13708236)
There are moments of pure beauty in the universe.
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by rubicon33 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:22PM (#13707741)
You could, and probably would. But, how would you send everyone else? That 'traditional' method (carbon based fuels to propel a heavy payload) is extremely expensive, and slow. So if you ever wanted to send more than just 1 payload, you'd quickly reach resource limitations (namely cost, and time).
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by robin_reala on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:24PM (#13707765)
Why would you need to send more? Humans are natural von Neumann machines.
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