Building an interstellar spacecraft that can take humans beyond the solar system might sound like something out of a sci-fi film - but one organisation has plans to do just that in the next 100 years.

Designers claim that in order to do so, we’ll need to build ‘living worldships’ akin to Noah’s Ark that are entirely self-sustainable.

These ships could then be used to rescue and house the human population in the event of a global catastrophe, for example.

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