National Geographic on travel to another star

[Vertigo]

Just read this and couldn't help but think of this thread

And now will this attempt, unprecedented in the annals of travels, lead to any practical result? Will direct communication with the moon ever be established? Will they ever lay the foundation of a traveling service through the solar world? Will they go from one planet to another, from Jupiter to Mercury, and after awhile from one star to another, from the Polar to Sirius? Will this means of locomotion allow us to visit those suns which swarm in the firmament?
Jules Verne, 'Round the Moon, 1870

 

[Southern Geologist]

So it's imperative we spread the rumor that China is planning on militarizing Mars and the asteroid belt.

Sounds good, let's try it.