The question is "how far" it is. It says in the article: Distance is tricky in space. So to put this in a perspective of time that we can all understand, and not to say something like, it will take 31 years travelling at the speed of light, which is not really true, and humans can’t do yet. Is necessary to measure this in a different fashion...
I agree, in the earlier days of chrome I was not a fan because of the performance it had with the flash player. Now is kinda the same story with unity... this plugin is heavy, well lets cut it. We should protect unity and stop using Chrome I say.