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only 12 light years away- 4 Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star - Glow - 08-10-2017
https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/08/tau-ceti-planets.html
thought some might find this interesting
RE: only 12 light years away- 4 Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star - APeacefulWarrior - 08-11-2017
This is why I'm a proponent of METI - that is messaging extraterrestrial intelligences. Rather than passively scanning, we should be beaming greetings at nearby star systems with at least a decent chance of harboring life. Particularly stars like this where a long-distance conversation is more or less feasible, even if it would be time consuming.
Because, realistically, much more than 30-40LY away, it really doesn't matter since the send/response time for a single message would be as long as a human lifespan. There are only a few dozen stars where radio contact is even plausible, and we could work through them within a century or so.
RE: only 12 light years away- 4 Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star - AnthroHeart - 08-11-2017
I wish we had subspace communication like in Star Trek. It went faster than light, like warp 9.9997.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19725/how-does-star-trek-faster-than-light-communication-work