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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5276076" data-attributes="member: 63">I figure within 50 years we'll have telescopes precise enough to have located a habitable planet somewhere. Some cadre of super-rich folks will decide to invest billions of dollars to launch a ship there, but it won't have a living person. It will have a very advanced artificial intelligence, and a variety of ultralight robots capable of exploring once it lands. 20 years later they'll actually get around to launching the thing.A hundred years after that, the ship might be a tenth of the way to its destination when some stupid mistake here on earth completely obliterates the ability to keep in contact with it. Somewhere close to the 31st century, radio signals will reach earth from this planet. People will flip the f*** out, because everyone will have forgotten about the ship, so they'll assume it's an alien intelligence.</blockquote>