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why have we not shot a probe toward the nearest foreign star?
by smeeger 1y ago
why have we not shot a probe toward the nearest foreign star?
- foxglacier 1y agoI'm not sure we'd be capable of receiving any signal it sent back to us, would we?
- tombrandis 1y agoThere was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerbergs-100m-interstellar-space https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber...