[ExI] Breakthrough Starshot - To The Stars!

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If they're honest, they may even find that anything that requires activity
> - even just keeping active a beamed energy source - for 20 years requires
> more infrastructure and commitment than they are willing to provide (or
> profitability - since pride and other incentives won't last nearly long
> enough - which it won't provide).
>
### Why would they need the beam on for 20 years? The proposal calls for a
boost phase lasting only a few hours, after launching a sufficient number
of probes the facility can be dismantled.

Rafał
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