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Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
(August 26, 2016 at 1:57 am)Bella Morte Wrote: So educate me, AF.

Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?

We have the ability to launch a space probe on a trajectory that would escape the solar system and eventually arrive at the ball park, more or less, of many of the potentially habitable planets we know of.    So yes, we can get to many of them.

The difficulty is the process of getting there using current technology would take anywhere from tens of thousands of years (to Proxima Centauri) to millions of years (anything more than 100 light years) after launch. Which discourages present investment in such an endeavor.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - by Anomalocaris - August 26, 2016 at 9:32 pm

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