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There's some very interesting work on using the Sun itself as a gravitational lense for sending signals back and forth to the craft, using surprisingly small am
by bradneuberg 9y ago
There's some very interesting work on using the Sun itself as a gravitational lense for sending signals back and forth to the craft, using surprisingly small amounts of power. More writeup here:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=35486 http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=35486
- placeybordeaux 9y agoReally cool! Thanks for sharing. Seems like there'd need to be a huge amount of effort to set up the transmission point on the other side of alpha centauri, but it sure would be amazing to have stable cheap communications across light years.