Quote Originally Posted by barrybueno View Post
Watched a programme 'tother day about searching for Earth 2.0 Obviously a new planet for us to ruin when we've finished with ours. They banged on and on about atmospheres, water, temperature and orbits etc but never addressed the elephant in the room which is how we'd ever get to one of these planets. The nearest one they mentioned was about 8 light years away, fúcking idiots
We even have people trying to talk up funding for a manned mission to Mars! Some even talking about a colony. We'd be living in giant glass domes with locally produced oxygen. Imagine trying to get all the gear we need to Mars in the first place before trying to assemble it.