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Old July 4th 03, 08:40 PM
Joann Evans
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Default What if we find a new Earth?

EAC wrote:

"Ultimate Buu" wrote in message .. .
What could the discovery of such a planet lead to?


Developed Majin Buu and send him there to destroy it?

An interstellar mission using solar-sails? Plans for colonization?
Focussing of SETI on such star-systems?


We probably won't be leaving the Solar System for a few hundred
centuries.


I would make that merely a 'few' centuries, and even that I consider
conservative.

But almost definitely not *this* century.

In the mean time, there's still plenty adventure to be head the realm
of the Earth's sphere. Earth is more dimensional than some would
think.


So? Humans don't research or explore in a linear manner. When
interstellar travel becomes possible and pratical, people will go. No
one is going to wait until every last square inch of this solar system
has been under a microscope. Besides, many of those staying behind, will
be content to continue to do this.

Trust me, when the first starship departs, someone will still be
doing some basic research on the physical nature of the Moon...

...or even Earth.