I found this little ditty in a linked article way way way more fascinating: > Humanity’s first chance to explore this nearby world may come from the recently a

I found this little ditty in a linked article way way way more fascinating: > Humanity’s first chance to explore this nearby world may come from the recently announced Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which plans to build fleets of tiny laser-propelled interstellar probes in the coming decades. Travelling at 20% of the speed of light, they would take about 20 years to cover the 1.3 parsecs from Earth to Proxima Centauri.