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    Seven rocky planets orbiting a nearby star may be roughly the size of Earth and could even be right for water—and maybe life—to adorn their surfaces, researchers announced Wednesday.

    "just 39 light-years away" rotfl

    • road trip time! i'll pick up the sunflower seeds!capn_ron
    • This has my inner geek squealing with glee. :DContinuity
    • To get a spacecraft there it would take:
      Accelerating at 1g the 1st half, and decelerating at 1g the 2nd half, the traveler would experience 7.3 years of time.
      zaq
    • or a bit more than 40 years on earthzaq
    • perhaps in our lifetime someone will get there and sent us pics of alienszaq
    • No spacecraft exists that can do that.monospaced
    • here's an IAMA with them from today https://www.reddit.c…scarabin
    • cool ^ thanks scarsea_sea
    • You've got to learn computers!futurefood
    • near lightspeed travel is not a million light years off to be fair.fadein11

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