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Yes, but are they Class M planets?
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Wow. The close one is only 28 light years away.
If we can accelerate a ship to 100 times out current space-ship top speed, and maintain than as-yet unimaginable speed through light year after light year of lethal friction from dust, and then decelerate back down to 0 again upon arrival, the whole trip (one way) will only take about 8,000 years, which is merely the time its taken us to go from hunter-gatherer to twitter.
It’s a piece of cake.
A “Super-Earth” 5 to 7 times as large? The gravity would be horrendous.