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Except that $100 million isn't how much it would cost, its how much that has been promised. To actually send a probe would take several orders of magnitude mor
by dzdt 10y ago
Except that $100 million isn't how much it would cost, its how much that has been promised. To actually send a probe would take several orders of magnitude more money; the amount being quite uncertain because the technologies are not yet developed.
- jessriedel 10y agoThe title says "$100M plan", not a plan for a $100M mission :)
- ourmandave 10y agoAt an estimated present-day price of approximately $10 per watt of laser power, building and operating Breakthrough Starshot’s 100-gigawatt array today could cost as much as $1 trillion. They're hoping the cost would come down if the tech to build it becomes a cheap-to-produce commodity, like Tesla batteries.