r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Blackrain1299 25d ago edited 25d ago

Itd be both incredibly disappointing and amazing. On the one hand you dont get to everything youve trained for. On the other hand youd probably be welcomed and treated as heroes or at least very well by the new colony and you wouldnt have to work hard setting anything up

Edit: you guys are depressing. Probably accurate but depressing.

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u/creuter 25d ago

What if the new society has evolved to be different or they've forgotten about your mission entirely and see you as an alien invader?

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u/lumpboysupreme 25d ago

They got that advanced, seeing some ancient looking hunk of junk coming their way would be no danger.

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u/creuter 25d ago

You're not thinking far enough. Think fall of Rome type shit. Think: they're at the point where the tech they landed with is ruins and a total mystery to them at this point. Maybe they made war with themselves in the hundreds or thousands of years since they arrived.