oh yeah, and someone mentioned that alpha centauri is a trinary system...
yes it is
which means the likelyhood of decent planets is a little bit lower...
but look at vega
http://science.slashdot.org/article....id=134&tid=160
looks like they do have real 'planets'
and vega is only 25 light years away, or 50 years with .5c fusion/ion engines
