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Old 11-February-2008, 06:42 PM
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Also, we re assuming that there isn't some kind of lethal concentration of gas in that atmosphere that would kill us, but they might be evolved to. Then again, if the pay off was a whole new planet, we could probably tweak the atmosphere a bit.
Well, the OP specified human-habitable. If so, we'd have settlements already, probably with at least one generation of children already born there. None of this go-to-the-Moon-a-few-times-and-then-sit-on-our-porch-for-five-decades nonsense.
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