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Apparently there's already a Kepler discovered planet with an ESI of 0.98:

http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...

EDIT: Unless that list was literally just updated with ESI 0.98 planet this thread is referring to...



1,075 light years away... Assuming we could somehow accelerate a "New New Horizons" probe to near light speed, that's a disappointingly long time to wait for a flyby.


And once it arrived, slowed down (haha!) and performed the survey it would only take another millenia for us to start receiving back information.

We need to work out how to bend spacetime.


Also they describe the table "These are mostly unconfirmed exoplanets discovered by the NASA Kepler mission (Kepler Candidates from the NASA Exoplanet Archive). Those already confirmed are listed by their Kepler name in the table above." So looks like it is going to get moved up to the confirmed table?




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