And that is only 234 trillion miles. Given our current best propulsion system, we will never get there.
And by being tidal locked in a very close orbit to flaring red dwarf stars means no, they’re not inhabitable.
We will as soon as they finish reverse engineering those alien ships Bob Lazar was working on at Groom Lake near Area 51
(I really do believe this)
Only a couple of challenges to overcome, and we’ll go check them out.
Like, radio signals would take 40 yrs to go back and forth between earth and any space machines sent there.
Why would we want to go there? We’re in the 21st Century, having seen around 100 million die in the 20th Century due to Communism/Socialism, and yet humanity is still pushing for it.
The United States, the only real defense against it, is itself in total disarray, and China is growing to be a global threat and linked to Russia, also a global threat.
So why go and F up another planet? If we’re going to wink out, lets do it without infecting other places.
Those apocalyptic movies from the 50s 60 and 70s, any one of those loom on our horizon in case anyone didn’t know it.
We’re hanging by a thread here, with a snake-charmer doing his best to screw up our only real chance to turn this all around.
Oui...
The variables for life on our plant such as temperature, radiation level, oxygen levels, water supply, gravitational force, etc. etc. are so finely tuned and narrow it’s pretty silly to claim that any planet this far away is “earth like”. I know a scientist researched this and found 20 such variables. He tried to calculate the probability of even ten of these variable existing all within the extremely narrow range necessary for life as we know it and came up with an astronomical number. Something like 10 to the 33rd power against.
Only 39 light years away?
That’s a hop, skip and a jump.
We just have to go really, really fast.
j/k
[in size and temperature to Earth and Venus]
Well, which is it? Give some of the temps I’ve heard about Venus. Hot, no?
Temperatures like Venus don’t make for good habitat for man. Average temperatures of 400+ degrees Celsius are bit warm for me.
Comparable to Earth and Venus...
That is a pretty big range!
Scientists act like life is everywhere.
What if we are unique?
Again they mislead. There are hundreds of conditions necessary for life as we know it and they use 3 or 4 to make it seem “earth-like.”
I’m outta here, just the same!
Would one of them be called, Earth"?
Now we just have to figure out how to go light speed or better, so we can actually get there and back in a human lifetime.
“Given our current best propulsion system, we will never get there.”
Not in your lifetime, maybe, but I plan to live forever so I can give it a go. . . .