600 light Years Away

Nasa confirmed that it detected a possible habitable planet in the solar system Kepler 22 600 light years away from us. It seems that this planet can sustain life as it maybe have water in the liquid form.

At this moment even if we travel at the speed of the fastest man made object, the Voyager it will take to much time to reach it.
Voyager travels at this moment at the speed of 18 m per second so just make the calculations.

It seems that space exploration to reach other planets will be the next challenge in the years to come, not only from the engineering and technological point of view, but also from the financial point of view, as building a space ship capable of taking humans to colonize other planets will not have any financial return, as it will take more than one generation to get there.

Any future space ship will have to travel faster than light to make any voyage possible, and this barrier it’s still under discussion with the neutrino experiments.

Just a thought, if Mankind finds a way of colonizing other planets in different solar systems we will extend the existence of our species for thousands of years.

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Voyager travels at this moment at the speed of 18 m per second so just make the calculations.

Voyager travels at this moment at the speed of 18 m per second so just make the calculations.

18m per second? That is 64.8km per hour = speed of a car?

wikipedia said it is 17km per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

I have been thinking on it. we will not die with the sun. as we know, the sun will become a red giant after approx. 10 billion years. TEN BILLION YEARS! ahem, sorry. I think the first human on a so called "exoplanet" will be real in maybe 200-300 years, if we compare the 18th century and and our technical advancement today
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There is probably just as much a chance that mankind will not survive as long as the planet given our tendencies toward self destruction.
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Although 600 light-years is relatively nearby, it's still so far away that we'll never be able to do anything about it. All we'll have is the knowledge that there may be a habitable planet there. Eventually, the telescope technology will exist that will allow us to take a close look at it from here. We'll be looking at it how it looked 600 years ago, though.