A potentially closest habitable planet to our solar system has been found. Visit:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/24/health/proxima-b-centauri-rocky-planet-habitable-zone-neighbor-star/

Considering the multiple problems that Earth is facing at present such as the Italian earthquakes which have killed over 240 people so far, ongoing conflicts between humans, groups of people and nations along with the increasing and unfixable problems relating to the environment and climate change, should humans consider the idea of some moving to another planet?

Also if such a proposal was workable, would you consider taking up such a move?

your medication is affecting you seriously Nathan.

Certainly, Nathan, but there is no need to take our human body with us - it probably won't be suitable anyway to the conditions on another planet, nor would it last the journey.

Unconfirmed reports warn of serious earthquakes on b Centauri and possible tsunamis in iceberg regions.

There are at present, as all of us know, technically insurmountable problems to overcome with settling on another planet. The one NathanJ is referring to is approx 4 light years away, that distance in itself is one of the biggest challenges.

Our current space traveling technology is just too primitive to begin attempting this distance. If one believes in Einstein's theories, then traveling faster than the speed of light will have consequences with regards to our perception of time, but I digress, that is a discussion for another day..

It is inevitable that we humans will have to settle in other parts of the universe, the last 5,000 or more years of human history and development or progress, support our natural curiosity to see what is "on the other side of the fence" so to speak. I don't' think robots or other forms of advanced A.I will satisfy, even though they are more probable for a first trip to test the area chosen for travel.

IF the logistics of this journey were overcome and that means the time to travel there, AND the chosen planet was capable of supporting life, I would choose such a trip but who's going to pay? in any case I"m sick to death of the constant problems we humans have created on this earth, and the virtually endless discussions about them.

If we could travel such distances in the hostile environment of space that the time to get there would be like something today such as traveling from Sydney to London or thereabouts, yes it would indeed be something I would seriously consider.

Going by the rate of technological innovation over say the last 50 years, I would say we will be there by the end of this century, and about time too!

I also wanted to add to my last sentence in the above post, that we could be there by 2050 IF and only IF we all put our intellectual and material resources together to focus on this ever important goal.

Call me a dreamer, Idealist, nutcase or escapist... I don't care! but sometimes I honestly thing all this bickering and rivalry between us here on earth is keeping us here on earth...until we destroy ourselves!