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Astrophysics? Ok, well. You already found out that we will not leave this planet in our attached life form in numbers exceeding a few dozen. I have ranted about the fashionable escape elsewhere:

gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210724-spaceflight.gmi

However, one can for a few minutes make a thought experiment, of the "what if" sort. What if we must ship a group of folks to Proxima Centauri (or near there) in a desperate attempt to keep human life afloat while the planet burns? Without much thinking:

Of course, there has been serious scientific work on all these. And of course, there has been literature written about some of the aspects mentioned. For example:

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~johano wrote:

Diolch am fawr for the reading list! I vaguely recall reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz" a long time ago, but would like to revisit it.