New planet discovered less than 25 trillion miles away!

[septimus]

A planet has been discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, in an orbit warm enough for liquid water.

I was especially intrigued by

Even before today’s announcement, Breakthrough Starshot had announced its plan to send tiny spacecraft to the Alpha Centauri system later this century… It will take more than 20 years for a spacecraft traveling at a monstrous 20 percent of the speed of light to reach Proxima Centauri, and another 4.24 years for any data to arrive back on Earth.

[Chefguy]

I think there was already a thread on this some time ago.

Here.

[Chihuahua]

Awesome! I’ll just gas up the Hyundai and we can get going!

[septimus]

@Chefguy

I think there was already a thread on this some time ago.

Here.

Ooops! I did Google site:straightdope.com but missed that.

Mods, please close this thread.

[levdrakon]

I reported it for a merge.

[QuickSilver]

@Chihuahua

Awesome! I’ll just gas up the Hyundai and we can get going!

You should use the bathroom before getting on the road.

[cochrane]

I can cut the trip down to less than four years. I should be able to go by the year 2061.

[carnivorousplant]

@QuickSilver

You should use the bathroom before getting on the road.

Stuckey’s will be few and far between.

[Asimovian]

I’m going to go ahead and shut this one down given the existence of the other thread linked to in Post #2.