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Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone World Only 5,000 Years Away
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Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone World Only 5,000 Years Away

Feel like visiting Kepler 186f,  the new planet the Kepler Space Telescope Scientists recently found? Pack a lunch. It’s 500 light-years away. Even at 10 percent the speed of light, low-balling the theoretical velocity scientists appear to think is achievable with a drive using a plasma – vaporized stream of pellet-sails proposed by Dana Andrews (discussed by Centauri Dreams and...