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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
and besides that, these places are always 270 million light years away, nobody will be going there any time soon, so why in the hell should we care??????
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Gliese 581
M3V type Red Dwarf star
(Note: Red Dwarfs will continue to burn for 10s of billions of years after our G2 type sun dies out)
Planets Gliese 581C, G, and E all maybe in the Star's habitable Zone.
Distance from Earth
20.3 light years
Tomorrow if we set aside .1% of the US GNP we could built a spacecraft capable of transporting 50,000 tons of payload to that system in a little over 200 years.
We can go there! We may
have to go there because eventually Earth and our star system will get used up.