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In a bid to protect humanity in case Earth becomes uninhabitable, a team of scientists is trying to pull together a bold plan to colonize a distant exoplanet<\/a>.<\/p> It’s a long shot in every sense of the word. Scientists from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies told OneZero<\/em><\/a> that the plan to send a crew to a potentially-habitable exoplanet in another solar system — perhaps Proxima Centauri B<\/a> — could take centuries or millennia. That means entire generations would be born and die during the journey.<\/p> The challenges facing such a mission are so myriad, however, that the scientists’ comments sound a bit flip.<\/p> “There’s no principal obstacle from a physics perspective,” executive director Andreas Hein told OneZero<\/em>. “There are a lot of challenges, but no fundamental principle of physics is violated.”<\/p> Among those challenges is figuring out how to sustain human life on such a long journey through space. Based on current research, even a trip to Mars is ill-advised because scientists haven’t yet figured out an effective way to shield astronauts from deadly cosmic radiation<\/a>, and the medical issues<\/a> caused by spending time in space are still poorly understood.<\/p> And that’s assuming that an exoplanet will actually be hospitable<\/a> once people get there, speaking nothing of whether any of those space-born generations will change their mind about the mission they were assigned at birth.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity<\/a> [OneZero<\/em>]<\/p> More on space colonization: <\/strong>Reality Check: IT Would Take Thousands of Years to Colonize Mars<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Scientists Are Planning a 1,000 Year Trip to Another Planet<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read this article: Long Shot In a bid to protect humanity in case Earth becomes uninhabitable, a team of scientists is trying to pull together a bold plan to colonize a distant exoplanet . It\u2019s a long shot in every sense of the word. Scientists from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies told OneZero that the plan to send a crew to a potentially-habitable exoplanet in another solar system \u2014 perhaps Proxima Centauri B \u2014 could take centuries or millennia Continue reading Technically Possible<\/h2>
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