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Thanks for the correction on star distances. Now, do you have any idea how much weight you need to loft to support a crew of 10 on a 4 to 5 year mission? Do you know what resources, financial, techno, energy, political etc. would be required for such a mission? Now imagine those factors enlarged to cover a mission by the entire population of the planet. We don't have the oneness of human spirit enough yet to support such a massive expenditure of effort and resources to one goal. My theory is that by the time we, as a species reach that point, we will be close to evolving into totally psychic beings and will no longer need the physical world to sustain us, thus making the need to move to another planet moot. To truly appreciate this possibility, have a death experience or practice the vision quests that American Indian and other cultures have devised for accessing these other non-physical realms. The sense you come away with is that the physical world, (including the thoughts of the physical mind) is like the part of the iceberg that is above the surface of the sea. It composes the smaller fraction of reality. And we are evloving through all phases of that reality. Physical existence is the phase we are "stuck" in at the moment. But it's only a temporary stop. wmc – via Autopilot!