Temperate planet heading this way in the near(ish) future.

A planet with habitable temperatures has been discovered at a distance of 11 light years, but within a mere 80,000 years its star will be the nearest to Earth.

 Every once in a while this claims come up.  I doubt this could be a very habitable because it is orbiting  a red dwarf star.  Red dwarf stars tend to produce tidal locked planets. 

We will just have to wait and see.

Maybe, by that time, we will be able to travel to that star and colonize it. Maybe, that is how humans are able to colonized very distant worlds. It would be fascinating if we really would develop technology that allows us to travel faster than the speed of light. I refuse to believe that we cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Maybe, our laws of physics are broken and we will need to rethink our laws and theories.

Yeah, I think 80,000 years may be just enough to prepare.

It is estimated there are about 40 billion planets in our galaxy which are approximate earth sized and orbit their star's habitual zone. And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies so to think we are

the only living creatures like us in the universe places an assumption that we are muy importante?

There are a lot of other factors too though ponz.  For example, the planet must be in the habitable zone of the galaxy as well as the solar system, the star can't be too big of too small, it likely can't  be a red dwarf star, it must be in a spiral galaxy, it must be in the habitable  zone of UVL rays as well as water, it must be able to maintain a steady water supply for billions of years, it must have tectonic activity, whatever caused the Avalon and Cambrian explosions must also be there, the list goes on and on.  That's why I think we are alone.  The books 'Rare Planet" and "Improbable Planet" explains many more things than this too.   

opie all of those limitations pale in light of the sheer numbers.

And a planet does not have to maintain a steady water supply for billions of years? 

let us say only 1 planet in a hundred billion answers the questions you pose--that still leaves hundreds of billions of planets which meet all the conditions. 

ponz, It's a numbers game.  In addition to all that the planet needs a oversized moon, not one that comes naturally, but a huge very close to the size of our moon.  There is a long list of requirements and everything on the list has to be near perfect.   

Life requires water.  For life to exist for billions of years water must be around, that's why I included it.  We actually lose some water every year to evaporation and it escapes into outer space.  It just so happens that we also get about the same amount of water coming into our planet from comets.   

While we are dealing with guesses.   According to the authors I've read the total number of possible planets is not enough to account for the great odds against even one habitable planet,   If your an atheist, we beat tremendous odds, if your a Christian, then that is support for your faith.   

I have mentioned this in my Astronomy course about the solar system. Life does not necessarily need water to survive. There can be lifeforms that do not require water or any kind of liquids. The lifeforms I am chatting about are like rock lifeforms. Maybe, there are planets that have rock lifeforms. If so, they would not need anything to eat or drink.

Think of the Fantastic Four. The Thing was made of pure rock. He did not need water or food to survive, let alone air. Maybe, there are planets that have no atmosphere may have life on them, but not the kind of life we know it. There could be life, but not the kind that we are accustomed to.

Anything is possible I suppose if we include imagination, but I'm just going by what NASA says  -->  https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/Water:_Molecule_of_Life.html .