Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star

Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by rmbyrro on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:14AM (#30300495)

This is exciting stuff indeed. Imagine a year-4,000 spaceship reaching Centauri before another spaceship dispatched 1,000 years before it?

For the cynical or pessimists: I'm not optimistic about humanity reaching year-4,000, I'm just possibilistic about it (as in the philosophical meaning [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actualism#:~:text=possibilism,...

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by s1artibartfast on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:10PM (#30303931)

I can't imagine humanity not making it to 4000. There are very few true existential threats.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:29AM (#30301862)

This is literally the plot of a very old computer game Alien Legacy. [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Legacy

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by rbanffy on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:25AM (#30300582)

This is more or less the plot of a story by Brazilian science fiction writer Roberto Luiz Calife.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by natechols on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:26AM (#30302484)

And the story "Far Centaurus" by A.E. Van Vogt.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by rbanffy on Saturday February 12, 2022 @06:41AM (#30312047)

Will have to look that one up.

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