If technology gets so advanced we have warp drive then I don't see why we wouldn't have the technology to negate all this CLIMATE CHANGE (yes that's why the article says we have to take to the stars) damage (terraform Earth!!), if it were real that is.
In other words this article is the scientific equivalent of mast**bating to Star Trek and then going out for brunch at Howard Johnson's.
Maybe we can use teleporter pods... Just make sure there’s no insects onboard when your DNA is disassembled and reassembled..
Ask Jeff Goldblum about THAT little... mishap...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-8L1iZq20
It didn’t end well...
” then going out for brunch at Howard Johnson’s. “
Is there one still in business?
Rubber clams/
“We are so far away from human colonies in space”
Nonsense. Humans have inhabited space in low Earth orbit (LEO) for most of 44 years now. Humans have the technological capability of making a commercial expansion of that human habitat to the near Earth asteroids, the Moon, and beyond in the next to decades given the will to do so.