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As we have seen in the previous chapters, there are many roads to the stars and a wide variety of planetary environments await the first pioneers from Earth. But unless some form of breakthrough propulsion proves possible and practical, the duration of even the shortest interstellar journies will be decades or centuries, and the planets awaiting the first pioneers may require centuries of terraforming, since exact duplicates of the Earth may not be common.
To seek it with thimbles, To seek it with care;
To pursue it with forks and hopes;
To threaten its life with a railway share;
To charm it with smiles and soap!
Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (1891)
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Matloff, G.L. (2000). Life between the stars. In: Deep-Space Probes. Space Exploration. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3641-5_11
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