[KingLudd]

Did Lewis and Clark discover the Northwest Passage?

[stars & stripes forever]

[It offers the possibility of starting over.]

That’s already been done through Jesus Christ. (John 3:16)

[airborne]

Meanwhile we’ve been stuck in low Earth orbit for years and years.

[SampleMan]

Using present technology it would take 25.8 million years to get there. To reach the planet, people would have to reproduce in space, creating multiple generations of descendants.

Its hard to keep reading after that, as "Multiple generations" is about as great an understatement as is possible.

Until we can go faster, or this solar system becomes uninhabitable, its not going to happen. No one wants to live their entire lives with the sole purpose of transporting DNA.

In a lot less than 25.8 million years, I would think it would be possible to terraform both Venus and Mars, not to mention colonizing Antarctica (a lot less challenging than a space colony).

Not to crap on finding other solar systems, but until we can achieve speeds of at least 0.5xC, I can't get too excited.

[TYVets]

NASA has discovered the answer to all of our problems.

I thought NASA used up all it's money promoting Global Warming.

The Russians are ferrying Americans to the Space Station, because we don't have the assets to do it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I suggest we make a huge Space Ark. Populate it with all the Obama voters, Democrat politicians, hairdressers, marketing executives and Telephone Sanitizers. Put them in suspended animation then aim it at Kepler-452b and give it a big shove.

Their progeny will be very happy there and we will have rid ourselves of a useless 1/3 of the population.

[DungeonMaster]

There is a lot of deception going on here.

[zeugma]

Kepler-452b is 8,400 trillion miles away. Using present technology it would take 25.8 million years to get there.

Idiot reporter. How about use real astronomical units. How many light-years distant is it? That can help us put it into perspective of other 'nearby' astronomic objects.

[Impy]

Tell the dems that the Sun is habitable and wish them bon voyage.

[Chaguito]

Either Cal Thomas is being facetious or he has jumped the shark with this silliness.

[Resolute Conservative]

I’m sorry, at 8400 trillion miles they do not show shiite about that planet. I get tired of hearing this stuff.

[JoeFromSidney]

Hasn't the thought crossed the mind of every adult of a certain age that if we could time travel back to our youth and know what we know now, we would not have made the mistakes we made?

In plotting science fiction stories, I've given this a lot of thought. First of all, I've learned from a lot of my mistakes. Somehow eliminating those mistakes might eliminate the knowledge that came from them. Second, the mistakes I made are not unique in any sense. Given somewhat changed conditions, I'd probably have made some other mistake instead. Thus eliminating the mistakes I actually made might simply mean I'd make other mistakes, equally serious or even more serious. Finally, there have been a few times when I got close to getting maimed or killed. I wouldn't want to roll the dice on those events again. The second time around, I might not come out so well. So I'm just as glad that we can't go back and fix our mistakes.

[Seaplaner]

I would worry about green Keplerite, just saying.