[Verginius Rufus]

I doubt it will ever be technologically possible to travel to a planet orbiting another star, given the distances involved and the impossibility of going faster than the speed of light.

We now know there are lots of "exoplanets" out there and it may be that some have some kind of life--but perhaps only very primitive forms. The chances of intelligent life evolving somewhere else may be infinitesimal--but given the number of stars in the universe, there could be one or more elsewhere, maybe in another galaxy. So we are very unlikely ever to make contact (and it may be safer not to), but it is conceivable that we will find evidence of some kind of life elsewhere even if we can't actually visit it.

[Red Badger]

Somebody has to be ‘first’, why not us?.............😁