Here's a cautionary tale about why we shouldn't colonize any Earth-like neighboring planets
In case you haven't heard, we seem to be living in the first fifteen minutes of a science fiction movie. Proxima Centauri, the red dwarf and star nearest the sun in the milky way, has a potentially Earth-like planet orbiting within its habitable zone. Just four light years away, it seems …
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