Why Colonize Alpha Centauri And Proxima Centauri?

The proximity to us played a fundamental role in making Alpha Centauri the subject of science fiction speculation and that it was mentioned in literature and video games.
In fact, Alpha Centauri, even in reality, would be one of the very first destinations of a possible future interstellar trip manned with a human crew. In Babylon 5, a science fiction television series shot in the 1990s, the system, simply called "Proxima", is one of the major colonies of the Earth Alliance; in this planetary system, orbiting around Proxima Centauri, there are three planets, the third of which is also the largest colony in the alliance.
In the 1960s television series Lost in space, a family of space settlers attempt to colonize an Alpha Centauri planet.
In the DC Comics comic series, planet Rann originated in the Alpha Centauri system, until it was teleported to Polaris; in the Rann series it is important as the foster planet of explorer and hero Adam Strange.
In the world of video games, one of the most famous examples is that of the Civilization series, which places as one of the victory conditions that of sending an expedition of colonists to the Alpha Centauri system. In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, victory is given by the outcome of a competition between different civilizations for the conquest of the planet Chiron, orbiting the star. In the various Transformers series most of the time the native planet of the alien robots, Cybertron, orbits the aforementioned star.

Science fiction and video games aside, why colonize the planets of Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri?
First of all for its proximity: that of Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to ours, just 4.3 light years from the Sun: one light year is the distance traveled by light in a year in a vacuum, and is equivalent to about ten thousand billions of kilometers. This means that, traveling at the speed of light, it would take us 4.3 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system is a triple system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun in mass and size quite close to each other, known as Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red dwarf star, known as Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri. The name Proxima, from the Latin, means "closest": and in fact, to be precise, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, which is 4.22 light years away, and not Alpha Centauri.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:19 Its Proximity
04:00 Characteristics
06:14 Discovery
09:40 Fundamental Question

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