A new initiative announced yesterday has created a plan to send a swarm of tiny probes to Alpha Centauri, Earth’s nearest star.
The initiative backed by Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner will attempt to create some of the fastest and smallest spacecraft ever built. “Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever,” said Stephen Hawking, “Sooner or later, we must look to the stars. Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting…
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