[ExI] Breakthrough Starshot - To The Stars!

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Gravity Probe B was 

 

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf
Of Anders Sandberg
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:04 AM
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On 2016-04-15 05:55, Adrian Tymes wrote:



>>. Most notably, how do they keep the project running for the 20 years they
estimate (plus time for the signal to get back), such that someone will be
listening (and know how to listen) when the signal from the fly-by returns?


>.Do you really think nobody can pull off a 20 year long project?




-- 
Anders Sandberg
 
 

Gravity Probe B was a project that went on for fifty years.  Some of that
was preliminary theoretical work, but they had advanced hardware which went
through the 1989 earthquake in Palo Alto.  The project launched 15 years
after that.

 

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