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Warren DeMontague

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8. Cool. thanks!
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 12:26 AM
Mar 2017

Yeah, I have been reading up on the whole starshot initiative thing, others had suggested slinging the mini-probes in such a way as to use the gravity of Alpha Centauri A and B to slow them down and potentially swing them around to be actually be gravitationally captured by Proxima Centauri, etc. (where I think they know there's at least one exoplanet) as well.

But they're talking, of course, about a probe or probes weighing maybe a gram each, max.

The energy and engineering for an actual interstellar craft is on a totally different scale, of course. Cool ideas, to be sure, though.

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