The scouts would be machines, for sure. If it takes like 1+ years to travel a light year? Scouting potential planets would be essential before sending life-forms for further study of them.
There could be "potentially viable planets" in a lot of systems, eh? Telescopes can only tell us so much, getting probes into orbit is required. Then getting the data back! That's also needed.
The scouts would be machines, for sure. If it takes like 1+ years to travel a light year? Scouting potential planets would be essential before sending life-forms for further study of them.
There could be "potentially viable planets" in a lot of systems, eh? Telescopes can only tell us so much, getting probes into orbit is required. Then getting the data back! That's also needed.