The thing that bothers me about all the effort going into finding exoplanets is that we could guess they were there but we can’t go there or send probes, so why not wait until we have warp drive and can make use of the info?
Exactly. We can go to the stars, or we can stay here and fight inequality.
I don’t see how warp speed is really going to help much. I am assuming you are talking about the speed of light. If we were looking to travel to a place that is 500,000 light years away, and could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 500,000 years to get there.
The money wasted on these searches would be better spend on studying our oceans.