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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by spookyuser on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:36PM (#14999561)
I also recently finished The Three Body Problem, we could get there in 500 years with the minor caveat that we are not killed in a dark forest strike sometime before then.
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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by bognition on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:47AM (#15002537)
The dark forest strike is an interesting idea but there is no reason to actually believe that is how intelligent life on different planets would behave.
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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by spookyuser on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:37AM (#15002852)
True. It's not based on any hard evidence but IMO the author made a persuasive argument for it.
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