• Question: Question, if you could find a planet that could sustain life, what would you do? thanks :)

    Asked by RT to Stefan on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 12 Nov 2014:


      Since I don’t work on discovering exoplanets at the moment, that’s quite an unlikely situation. However, even if I did find one like that, there’s not really much we could do! Even if that planet was next door at the closest star, it would still take over 4 years to get to on a spacecraft that could fly at the speed of light. Travelling at typical spacecraft speeds, we’re talking more about a journey time of 100,000 years… 🙁

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