This is great.Only a hop, skip and jump if the ANC and Malema stuff up too much.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/16/alpha-centauri-has-a-planet/
That is great, I wonder if there is any planets in the habitable zone. Seems we are finding more planets in multiple star systems which is good news.
This is why I want immortality and/or fast space travel in my lifetime.
It would be cool if it were in the habitable zone (see what I did there?), however: imagine travelling there and SEEING it with your very own eyes! Imagine sending a probe with 3d camera’s to record it, the first extra-solar planet visited by man. I just had shivers.
Perhaps the bloke in your avatar pic will soon give orders to lay in a course for the Alpha Centauri system. And… engage!
Warp 3, Scotty!
A robotic exoplanet mission launching today “would require about 40,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri,” Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told reporters Tuesday.
She cunt taek much more o’this, Cuptin!