Astronamers Find a group of "Super-Earths"

[Glitch]

If there is a much more advanced race of beings out there, I'm sure their purposely avoiding this ghetto of the celestial bodies.

[Kaura117]

I wouldn't say so. We've a number of lovely gas giants to exploit- none of which we're using ourselves. Not to mention a resources-rich asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter- lots of space between those rocks, but some of them measure in the kilometer-radius scale. If there are causality-violating, FTL-capable civilizations out there, they'd at least set up a backwaters mining station or two.

[shy-cosplayer]

Well good thing we have a place to go to once all the other planets in our system go KA-PUT!

how're they gonna transport everyone?

[Kaura117]

Feed brains through a synapse mapping scanner, upload the memory and synapse maps as software, load it all onto a kiloton starwisp with a built-in nanoassembly suite, and chuck it at the relevant stars. A million years later, the nanogrown cloning tanks spits out the colonists, who then subsequently find themselves obsolete and unwelcomed as advances in propulsion and storage technology since they've left has made it so that future generations of colonists had already beaten them to the planet, and has since established cities and nations.

I love technology, and the accelerating rate of progress it's brought about. But it can be an outright bitch sometimes.

[Mister_E]

Well good thing we have a place to go to once all the other planets in our system go KA-PUT!

how're they gonna transport everyone?

I'll leave that for you to deal with, best get cracken!

I'm a little nervous about what CRAZY illness might be on them planets.

[mDuo13]

Well good thing we have a place to go to once all the other planets in our system go KA-PUT!

how're they gonna transport everyone?

I'll leave that for you to deal with, best get cracken!

I'm a little nervous about what CRAZY illness might be on them planets.

It's possible, but moreso than microbiological entities that have no idea how to attack human cells, I would be concerned about simple poisonous substances. Of which there are a lot. Or, you know, lethal macrobiological entities.

[Glitch]

I wouldn't say so. We've a number of lovely gas giants to exploit- none of which we're using ourselves. Not to mention a resources-rich asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter- lots of space between those rocks, but some of them measure in the kilometer-radius scale. If there are causality-violating, FTL-capable civilizations out there, they'd at least set up a backwaters mining station or two.

I still use the term ghetto over backwater since they must look down at the earth and say "they are crazy mofos." Unless of course they are just as crazy as us. I am very optimistic(it's below my avatarXD ) but I dout any civilization can have all their problems solved.