[ExI] Breakthrough Starshot - To The Stars!

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2016-04-15 23:58, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> On Apr 15, 2016 2:43 PM, "Stephen Van Sickle" <sjv2006 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sjv2006 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Why would they have "nothing to do?"  The major cost is in 
> engineering and the capital cost of the laser array.  Keep sending probes.
>
> They plan to just send a few probes - possibly making a chain of 
> relays, accelerated to different speeds - precisely so they don't have 
> 20 years of work to do.
>

Obvious testing targets would be the local planets. I suspect that 
testing would soon become a major activity.

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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