[quote=worth;814155]A and B are 11AU at their closest point. So it's entirley possible for an earth like planet to orbit either star.
Alpha Centauri is pretty much exactly like our sun, thats why it's so interesting.
And it was more of a joke. I know there are just as many complications in
traveling light years to a star system when we can barley get out of our own solar system.[/quote]
Very true, the fastest vehicles human's have ever manufactured, the Voyager probes, still have not reached the heliopause*.
*Dictionary Definition: The region surrounding the solar system at which pressure from the outgoing solar wind equals the pressure from the interstellar medium (made up mostly of hydrogen and helium), and the solar wind can penetrate no further. It is considered to be the outer boundary of our solar system. It is Approximatly 100 AU from the Sun