Lost in Space got it right!

[+Fubar512]

Astronomers have announced that they have discovered an earth-sized  planet orbiting the sun's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri (which in turn is itself a "third" member of the Alpha Centauri binary star system). Anyway, at 4.24 light years distance, it'll take a while before Virgin Galactic begins regularly scheduled service there 

 

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-earth-like-planet-circling-suns-nearest-neighbour/ar-BBw03po?OCID=ansmsnnews11

[RUSTYMORLEY]

Astronomers have announced that they have discovered an earth-sized  planet orbiting the sun's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri (which in turn is itself a "third" member of the Alpha Centauri binary star system). Anyway, at 4.24 light years distance, it'll take a while before Virgin Galactic begins regularly scheduled service there 

 

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-earth-like-planet-circling-suns-nearest-neighbour/ar-BBw03po?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

 

 

 

What happens if we arrive there only to find that someone-else has occupied the planet already - perhaps little green men !!!!!

[jeanba]

What happens if we arrive there only to find that someone-else has occupied the planet already - perhaps little green men !!!!!

We call them terrorist and we exterminate them (operation proximab freedom)

Edited August 26, 2016 by jeanba

[ShrikeHawk]

We call them terrorist and we exterminate them (operation proximab freedom)

 

Maybe we feel bad about doing it a century later, and try to make them feel better by putting their likeness on a coin and name a sports team after them.

[+Typhoid]

We call them terrorist and we exterminate them (operation proximab freedom)

 

they might look at us and thing "lunch".....

 

[charlielima]

We should either enslave or eat those ET barbarians before they do the same to us.

And then they can migrate here as refugees and control everything we do.

Cl

[ironroad]

I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I hope they know that some of us can be useful for rounding up others, to toil in their sugar caves.

[macelena]

As Napoleon said "Nuke from orbit, the only way to be sure"