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Stephen Hawking Initiative Aims to Send Probe to Alpha Centauri (~4.3 Light Years)

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Dubbed 'Starshot Project':

Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg and a group of tech and science giants want to send a tiny probe no bigger than an iPhone traveling at 100 million miles per hour to the nearest star.

This $100 million "Breakthrough Starshot" project is a "proof of concept" program designed to assess the feasibility of sending a tiny spacecraft out to Alpha Centauri by surfing on light beams.
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If the project is a success, a nanocraft could make it to Alpha Centauri within about 20 years of launch, far faster than any spacecraft has traveled before.
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Full press release (long read!):

http://www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/News/4

This is awesome. Count me in. Or send me to Alpha Centauri if old.
 
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