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They took the solar sail idea from Project breakthrough and turned it into a sphere to make it irrelevant if it starts spinning. 200 years to get to Alpha Centa
by Tepix 6y ago
They took the solar sail idea from Project breakthrough and turned it into a sphere to make it irrelevant if it starts spinning. 200 years to get to Alpha Centauri.
I hope to be alive when a first generation interstellar probe manages to catch up with Oumuamua, the first mysterious interstellar object detected hurtling across our solar system.