Stephen Hawking and Billionaire Team Up on $100 Million Quest to Find Alien Life

Stephen Hawking and Billionaire Team Up on $100 Million Quest to Find Alien Life

Stephen Hawking and Billionaire Team Up on $100 Million Quest to Find Alien Life, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up in a $100 actor coursing for conflicting activity that will await on a agile of postage stamp-sized aircraft to analyze the universe.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will aswell accompany Milner and Hawking on the lath of Breakthrough Starshot, a altruistic action to focus on amplitude analysis and the seek for activity in the universe.

Astronomers accept an Earth-like planet could abide aural the "habitable zones" of Alpha Centauri, the abutting brilliant arrangement to Earth, amid 25 abundance afar (or 4.37 light-years) away.

Breakthrough Starshot hopes to barrage bags of the tiny, light-propelled aircraft -- alleged nanocrafts -- with the ambition of extensive the brilliant arrangement in twenty years.

Each nanocraft is advised to fly at twenty percent the acceleration of light, on a captain pushed by a ablaze beam, authoritative it over a thousand times faster than today’s fastest spacecraft. With accepted aircraft technology, it would yield 30,000 years to ability Alpha Centauri.

"Earth is a admirable place, but it ability not endure forever," Hawking said in a statement. “Sooner or later, we have to attending to the stars. Breakthrough Starshot is a actual agitative aboriginal footfall on that journey.”

Each nanocraft would backpack cameras, photon thrusters, ability supplies, aeronautics and advice equipment, and the anew engineered "lightsail," which would actuate anniversary probe. If a individual nanocraft makes it to Alpha Centauri afterwards a 20-year journey, it would yield an added four years to address that advice aback to Earth.

Pete Worden, above administrator of NASA AMES Analysis Center, will advance the program, forth with a board of world-class scientists and engineers, aggregation admiral said.

The affairs faces cogent analysis and engineering challenges, and is accepted to yield a few years to complete. However, the proposed architecture has been created about technology that is either already accessible or acceptable to be accessible in the abreast future, according to the Breakthrough Starshot team.

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