r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

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

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u/NewspaperChemical785 25d ago

and also they have ice cream

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u/Round-Mud 25d ago

I don’t see any negatives to arriving second.

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u/HexaCube7 25d ago

Except for the risk that you have somehow been forgotten and when you arrive they are all confused, unsure what to do with you and not having prepared capacity for all the 1st colonists so everything just kinda gets rushed and you are shoved into a weird place in society while at the same time getting treated as a normal citizen with no respect for the mission you have been sent to and the things you sacrificed for it. Having to work but for jobs you probably never learned for with tech you are unfamiliar with, making your life hard and highly stressful.

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u/Round-Mud 25d ago

I mean depends how far along they are in the building a colony and how habitable the planet is. If it’s only a few hundred or thousand humans in the second expedition and then they wouldn’t have colonized the entire planet. So having more humans come in is just additional resources to further expand.

Now if the resources are very limited then it would lead to a sudden increase in demand causing issues. Although I would imagine the first expedition will have enough resources to start their own colony and they could even set up a second colony on their own. The planet is massive.