In reality we are a train wreck waiting to happen as we corkscrew through through the Galaxy...
That is why scientists are looking at exoplanets to discover possible habitats able to support human life--just in case we see disaster ahead. Even as the next generation of space telescopes comes online, like the James Webb Space Telescope, you'd need a 90-kilometer-wide telescope to see surface features on a future home 100 light years away. However, there is another alternative solution: The project, called the Solar Gravity Lens, or SGL will use Albert Einstein's idea that said, over a century ago, that gravity can bend and magnify light--a concept known as gravitational lensing. The gravitational field of the sun will create an immense lens. It will require precise navigation, communications over long distances, and the need for a sunshade to keep our own Sun's light from entering the telescope. A coronagraph would also be required to block the light from the exoplanet parent's star. Getting to the focal point will be challenging but the results will be spectacular. Once we determine which exoplanets have promising features, how will be get there? Think the Star Trek warp drive. Scientist have discovered how we can make a warp drive possible so men can travel to distant planets in minutes. Those strange UFOs we are observing may have discovered the way to make warp drive work already.