Would you be willing to leave Earth on a one-way trip to our nearest star system? In a Live Science poll, we asked our readers whether they would board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The poll was in response to a hypothetical spacecraft called Chrysalis, which won first place in a contest to design a multigenerational ship capable of housing thousands of people for a journey to Proxima Centauri b — an Earth-size exoplanet that is thought to be potentially habitable.
More than 3,300 readers responded to the poll, which was published Aug. 13. And at the time of writing, the results show that 45% of responders were willing to take the trip through deep space, no questions asked, while 30% gave a solid "no."
