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Originally Posted by O.city
It's actually sad for me to see these things. It's exciting but a buzzkill knowing I'll never get to actually see it or us go there.
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Never say never. With regard to SEEING something, the James Webb telescope will hopefully at least allow us to get a much better feel for what these (and other) exoplanets are like. It's not out of the question that we could fairly definitively say that there's a planet out there that likely has life on it in the next 10-20 years.
As for getting there, that's a much bigger challenge. We're gonna have to find a new form of ultrafast propulsion for that. Doesn't seem likely that it's on the horizon, but we went from not having airplanes to standing on the moon in about 70 years, so you never know.