This all falls under the category of so what? Doing anything about this “find” is soooo far beyond our capabilities now or for any foreseeable future as to render them useless information to be put on the most back burner of back burners. Speed of light is in excess of 186,000 miles per sec. Distances to these possible planets millions and/or billions of light years. The advances in so many areas of science are so far beyond our present situation it doesn’t compare to anything or any situation we have faced before. Inventions are one thing, discoveries are another.
#7 You will be able to take the stargate.
I dunno. In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew an airplane 120 feet in 1903, in 1948 I remember reading a blaring headline that we had bounced radar off the moon, in 1969 we landed a man on the moon. What will we be doing 66 years from now?
All we need is some guy working on a propulsion system suddenly saying "Well, I'll be damned!" - and at the speed of light, or through a worm hole, or . . ., we'll be landing on some of those planets. (In Gen. Grant's memoirs, he said that the first time he rode on a train, it hit 25 mph and thought "We have annihilated space!")
Your post reminds me of the 1899 edition of Punch Magazine where some guy showed up at the Patent Office and asked "Isn't there a clerk who can examine patents?" A boy replied "Quite unnecessary, Sir. Everything that can be invented has been invented."