Star Trek and similar science fiction entertainment is far more responsible for the public having a belief in "Planet B" than anything else. Guess one could arg

Star Trek and similar science fiction entertainment is far more responsible for the public having a belief in "Planet B" than anything else. Guess one could argue that tv and movies are the creation of entities that are like billionaires given their wealth and influence but even pulpy midcentury sci-fi magazines written by nearly impoverished authors were pushing the vision of humanity spreading far beyond Earth. Almost everyone in the developed world grew up in a cultural environment steeped in this sci-fi vision of humanity in space.