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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-04-15 23:58, Adrian Tymes
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<p dir="ltr">On Apr 15, 2016 2:43 PM, "Stephen Van Sickle" <<a
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> Why would they have "nothing to do?" The major cost is in
engineering and the capital cost of the laser array. Keep
sending probes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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Obvious testing targets would be the local planets. I suspect that
testing would soon become a major activity.<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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