One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet 142
The Bad Astronomer writes "A new study, looking at over 40,000 stars viewed by the Kepler spacecraft, indicates that 22% of stars like the Sun should have Earth-like planets orbiting them — planets that are similar in size to our home world and with a surface temperature hospitable for liquid water. There are some caveats (they don't include atmospheric issues like the greenhouse effect, which may reduce the overall number, or at cooler stars where there may be many more such planets) but their numbers indicate there could be several billion planets similar to Earth in the Milky Way alone."
Re:We will get there eventually. (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Maybe won't make any difference (Score:2, Informative)
Accelerating at a constant 1G would take something like a year to reach 99% light-speed..