Scientists find neighbor star with three planets in life-friendly orbits

This is an astrometric very close in star. However, having a small Sun requires a close orbit, and close orbits tend to lock planets rotation synchronous with orbits. Thus one side always faces the star. This would be a ideal target for a FOCAL radio telescope mission. Three target planets for comparative analysis within one system mission.

Isn’t this one of the star systems in one of those maps allegedly given by aliens in the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case? Yeah, I know, it wouldn’t take long for us to come out of the woodwork, but it would be interesting if something like that correlated.

“just 22 light years away” It might as well be 22 thousand light years. With our current propulsion methods of about 10 miles per second it would take approx 400,000 years to get there. If in the future we could invent something that’s a thoudand times faster(let’s say 10,000 miles per second) it would still take over 400 years. NASA need to be putting more of it’s budget into propulsion instead of parting it out into hundreds of pet projects.

Just 22 light years away??? Good point ylelwr!
Although it is a relativetly short distance in the scheme of the universe, what diference does it make if we can never get there, and no one from there can never get here?

“just 22 light years away” lylelwr references Jimberlv,
Voyager needed 35 years traversing 370 A.U. to our SOL heliopause. FOCAL mission threshold is approaching 550AU which can be achieved in 10 years using solar sail technologies starting in close to the SOL to achieve maximum velocity. The issues of pointing technology is critical limiting technology. Thus the relatively close 22 Light Years provides a reduced scaled technological test.
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Our own Technological Utopia is unique in this present Milky Way Galactic time space. I base this on NASA strategic planning to not employ significant development and assets of FOCAL Radio astronomy for comfort reasons: 1) preservation of (obsoleted) Chemical Propulsion, 2) unwillingness to employ assets to directly measure Milky Way spacial dimensions (threatening dark matter and BB hypothesis), and 3) a club elitism and status quo preservation (NASA no longer pushes any real envelope); ERGO unwilling to move outside some perceived political comfort zone. And they are not wrong, as our political will has turned circularly inward sustaining a self elitism philosophy.
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Errata ‘traversing 120AU’ (11Billion Miles)