@ltwass: As others have noted, the method of observation we use, more easily finds planets, the more massive and closer to their stars they are.

@8x10: If fusion isn't (or hasn't in its past, as with white dwarfs, black dwarfs and neutron stars) , it's not a star...

Also:

Not a problem, for some...

@Howard Blair: And they've even met...

@ceti: The solar system you live in has indeed warped your notions of what's 'normal' or at least possible.

@AlfLup: So, you like your meat old and tough, do you...?

@acrobaticrabbit: Huh?

@CraigJW: And every one of those 'fifteen thousand' lends itself to a technological fix.

@CraigJW:

@BoxOfScraps: Yeah, I'm betting the other fish said something like that to the first lobefins to climb out of the water...

Damn, I remember that! I didn't enter, I don't know where my parents would've put it if I'd won, I've no idea who did win, but I remember that...!

@twophrasebark: Unfortunately, it might well cause another effective but unsustainable 'crash' program (if we reacted much at all) like Apollo. One optimized to get there fast, not cheap. 'Waste anything but time' was the mantra. Before the decade is out, and before the Soviets. It did. Multiple times. Soviets…

@corpore-metal: You're right. The same adversarial relationship doesn't exist (which is not to say there isn't any, but it's not like the Cold War)

@Starlionblue: Though not as massive as Apophis, we already had that warning shot in 1972...

@Rubén Megido Sánchez: FTL would be nice, but you've obviously never heard of time dilation, life-extension, cryonic (or other) suspension, or (as much as I dislike it) generation travel...

@omgwtflolbbqbye: I think it'll be Sue too, but I (along with the Shi'ar who later put him on trial for it) haven't forgotten how Reed deliberately threw away a chance to destroy Galactus, and much over the objections of Iron Man, who was also present.