Name: 如果人類成為星際物種會怎樣？ (What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Species?)
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What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced

that we were able to leave our Solar System

if humanity became an interstellar society.

No human has ever been outside of our Solar System,

and only a few of us have actually left the Earth.

Even those who blasted out of here in a rocket didn't go too far.

There are billions upon billions of planets out there.

But they are so far away, it would take us a very long time to reach them.

If we jumped into the fastest spacecraft ever built,

to get to our neighboring star system Alpha Centauri.

Even if we could accelerate a spaceship to 99% the speed of light,

over 26,000 years would pass until we arrived at the center of our own galaxy.

And another 2 million years until we set foot

in the nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy.

How could we go about expanding our civilization into space

we'd need to break the speed limit of the Universe.

But for all we know, traveling at the lightspeed is physically impossible,

And our lifespans are too miserably short to cover those kind of distances

that could approach lightspeed and travel among stars.

We'd start with Alpha Centauri, our neighboring star system.

Who knows - maybe the exoplanet orbiting this three-star system

to discover the billions of other worlds.

Not all of them would be suitable for us to settle in.

In astronomy, a habitable world is a planet

that is just the right distance from its Sun-like star

But the reality is, humans require so much more than that.

Atmosphere, gravity, temperature - they're all important.

It's unlikely that we'd find another planet just like Earth.

But we could build self-sustaining Earth-like biomes on our giant spaceships,

Or, we could terraform some rocky exoplanets.

First, we'd harvest water from a few ice comets.

Then, we'd alter the planets' atmospheres to resemble Earth's.

Anything to be able to breathe in fresh air again.

Even though space would be so accessible,

people wouldn't travel around the Universe much

it would take generations to make a trip to the other side of the Universe.

In this new world, you'd get to travel among stars

only if you were a part of a ship's crew,

We'd send robots to perform our intergalactic chores.

Robots don't eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom.

They can withstand high levels of radiation and extreme temperatures -

all the things that would kill a human being.

But if space travel is something you crave,

consider pursuing a career as a postal carrier.

Because the most reliable way to communicate

Well, our satellites rely on radio waves to transmit information.

Even though these waves travel just as fast as light,

they lose their strength over long distances.

It's like being too far away from your WiFi router.

If humanity did become an interstellar society,

we humans would end up spread out across hundreds of light years of space.

and allow it to recover from our mistreatment.

Maybe we could create a new society on artificial planets

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