Star system has record eight exoplanets

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I was thinking more of a colony ship using some sort of nuclear fusion. It won't go the speed of light, but with a generation/colony ship that wouldn't be the goal. In a few hundred years, or maybe even a millennia we would get there.

It's a risk but I think it's worth it. I'd volunteer to go.

Unfeasible. To start, the ship would HAVE to be built in space as it would never be able to get off the surface, and would take several years. We'd have to create vast docking stations in order to support the immense crews working on the vessel and to keep it in orbit. Also, said crews would be unable to return to Earth as their bodies would be unable to withstand 'normal' gravity after prolonged exposure to lesser G's, much less the natural radiation and environmental factors which would be absent in an orbital station. They'd be 'condemned' to live in space. Next, we'd have to create flora and fauna that would be able to subsist in-stasis for prolonged periods of time OR in the same environment the work crews would be condemned to live in. Last, but by no means least, storage of food and water to feed the colonists while being transported would be another insurmountable obstacle unless you designed human beings to be able to subsist on other types of nutrients that would take up less space. I could go on, but the level of tech at our disposal is ill-equipped to deal with something like that except in science fiction......which is where I'm pulling most of these examples.​

 

[Skooby]

except in science fiction......which is where I'm pulling most of these examples.​

Coincidentally, I have been thinking about writing a sci-fi book based on a colony ship and a voyage our nearest star.