This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. ESO/M. Kornmesser
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. ESO/M. Kornmesser
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Only 11 light years away? Heck, let’s hop on over there right now!
How long could it take?
Seriously, though, we may have telescopes that could image this planet in the coming decades...and that’s pretty cool.
Well, its only 45 years til Zephram Cochrane invents the warp drive...
Too bad even 11 light years is an unfathomable distance that no biological or mechanical entity can successfully transverse given the laws of physics. However radio wave which earth has been transmitting in analog for over 110 years and in digital form for over 40 years have been out there for others to hear. One day some interesting communication may be received from those who can never visit but can send and receive. Who knows? There may be a whole chain of civilizations that are linked and transmit to each other.
Sure lets just drop in on them, I’m sure we’ll be welcome. They may even want to “serve man”. We may even show them the way to our planet, all they will have to do is follow the trail of discarded plastic.
At that distance, they are stepping out of bounds when they say that it is “earth-like”.
And an artist’s conception means nothing.
I read the article and think there are red dwarfs living on the planet.
“it will become the closest star to the sun in just 79,000 years”
Oh, JUST 79,000 years... only almost 15 times as long as human civilization has existed. No problem!