I don't know, but the first inhabitants of the lunar H3 mining plants will probably be.

Did australia suddenly have a space program? Lol j/k

Humans won't ever travel that far. Machines made by humans might.

If the first humans on Proxima B were convicts, their first generation offspring would return to Earth and beat us at cricket

I think human DNA will need to be able hop to younger planet systems if humanity isn't to extinguish along with the sun.

LOL We should hope so if humanity will survive indefinitely.

Impossible to say. It is unlikely, especially in terms of a single lifespan its almost impossible that would happen unless we have some incredible developments in life extension. Which is possible. You're way too over confident.

wouldnt it theoretically be possible for robots to travel that far, build up factories and teraform to modify it to humans, and use frozen human eggs and semen to create test tube babies? couldnt they also modify the genes of those babies to help them survive easier? and have lifelike possibly AI robots help raise the first generation of humans? like i agree sending humans that far away oesnt make much sense but i think it could be possible if robotics and/or AI was advanced enough. and it still close enough to recieve reports back to earth, so maybe we could send instructions back to the robots every decade or something and see how progress is going.

now teraforming worlds and building up cities would likely take a ton of time, so it might be centuries before the babies would be incubated. tho we could always send the eggs and semen after the initial building robots so the eggs and semen arent super old, idk how long frozen eggs and semen could potentially last.

The convicts could potentially reproduce on board, and their grandchildren could research the surface of Proxima b and send the results to Earth to equip the next launch.

A tiny robo-probe would take about a century to reach the nearest solar system.

How do you think we could get convicts there?

And why would we spend billions to send losers, if we had the technology?

So that humanity isn't limited to the age of the sun. Proxima is a red dwarf so will probably outlive the sun.

It's only 4 light years away. It's something that could feasibly be done within a human lifespan if you reach a significant fraction of the speed of light

There's a sci-fi story where a multi-generational colony ship finally arrives at a planet and it's covered in the ruins of a civilization of humans that arrived hundreds of years earlier using faster ships that were developed while the first ship made the trip.

Damn. So the first ships informed later ships, then there was ruin, then centuries later a new ship arrives with lesser technology than the previous?

Any chance you remember the name? I'd love to read that.

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