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> Sending just 1000 probes strikes me as fatally timid. We should be thinking in terms of millions of identical probes. DDOS attack on Proxima Centauri—-planet
by tomcam 3y ago
> Sending just 1000 probes strikes me as fatally timid. We should be thinking in terms of millions of identical probes.
DDOS attack on Proxima Centauri—-planet spamming!
- angiosperm 3y agoProxima Centauri is probably a poor choice of first destination, as there can be little of interest there. The probes could make a point of only flying past planets, and the destination star. Courtesy, indeed, demands it. It is not clear that a probe entering a planetary atmosphere would disperse before striking the surface; at 60,000 km/s, it would have less than a ms to disperse in. I am curious how you encountered this story, at this late date, so deeply buried in HN's lists.