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Heh just Egnever May 2016 #1
Aw come on... 40 light-years is but a hop, skip, and a jump! cherokeeprogressive May 2016 #2
Ensign... Warp 9... tk2kewl May 2016 #14
When you're talking cosmic proportions, 40 lys is just over yonder ----> ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #8
Fair enough Egnever May 2016 #12
The Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide KelleyKramer May 2016 #18
Perspective Stuckinthebush May 2016 #32
Let's start building an Ark now felix_numinous May 2016 #3
Well, There Isn't Advanced Civilization There For Sure ProfessorGAC May 2016 #4
Because they haven't sent us signals? lagomorph777 May 2016 #6
How Would They Stop It? ProfessorGAC May 2016 #15
Yes felix_numinous May 2016 #7
We don't need there to be an "advanced civilization" there...hell we don't have that here! Anyway.. ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #9
Again, I Was Kidding Around ProfessorGAC May 2016 #16
Ya we aren't even considered JesterCS May 2016 #28
The Time Window, encryption and advanced technologies. Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #34
And let's call it Noah's spaceship meow2u3 May 2016 #24
Just ask the Golgafrinchans! longship May 2016 #27
Word is that they want all persons on our planet to stay away malaise May 2016 #5
Also that Earth is under quarantine felix_numinous May 2016 #10
This has the potential to be exponentially more exciting that it already is. If even simple life... ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #11
K & R! HuckleB May 2016 #13
send cruz and trump captainarizona May 2016 #17
Sounds like one already has the first colony of Catholic space monks pinboy3niner May 2016 #19
I should probably research how life would evolve in such a system. ladyVet May 2016 #20
sadly, I think you're right n/t Pakhet May 2016 #22
You can detect an extrasolar transit with almost any telescope, the article is wrong on that Fumesucker May 2016 #21
Meanwhile, on the planet TRAPPIST-1 ... aggiesal May 2016 #23
Outside a relatively small distance from us, They don't love Lucy IDemo May 2016 #25
informative G_j May 2016 #30
that was also an 1880s Russian plan to recapture everyone's particle paths and resurrect them MisterP May 2016 #31
40 Light Years? Piece of Cake... Oneironaut May 2016 #26
If Trump wins I'm going there. Lint Head May 2016 #29
just forty lightyears away!? wildbilln864 May 2016 #33
Sure putting a lot of money into finding a place to run to. glinda May 2016 #35
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