Thursday, April 14, 2016

Zuckerberg and Hawking want to send a small ship in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri – Computer World

What can be done with a great amount of money? E.g
 invest in Breakthrough Starshot . It is
 initiative, which aims to find a way to develop
 Special power supply system for a tiny spacecraft.
  The object then is to be sent around Alpha
 Centauri
– one of the closest stars of the Earth and the third
 brightest in our sky.

The problem, however, is that the need for a multi-million
 dollars. The investor Yuri Milner supported the project to the tune of 100
 millions of dollars. Participation in the project at the Stephen
 Hawking, a council Breakthrough Starshot sits alone Mark
 Zuckerberg – CEO of Facebook.

Do you manage to create a ship that doleci to Alpha Centauri?
 I did not know. The star moved away from Earth is about
 25000000000000 miles. The fastest spacecraft now
 would need about 30,000 years to get there
.
 The money collected in the framework of Breakthrough Starshot, however, have
 allow for the creation of an engine that will be able to reach 20%
 the speed of light, and thus a miniature ship could reach
 Alpha Centauri for about 20 years (a few minutes after the start
 would be placed on the distance separating us from Pluto). The ship has
 It is equipped with special sensors and cameras, and the collected data are
 be transmitted to the ground.

There’s only one problem. The ship space created for
 millions of dollars moving at such a rapid speed can
 meet on the road a celestial body (even an asteroid), and then …
 bum.

In the video below you look TygodniKS – our
 a summary of the most interesting events of the last
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> See also:
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 be

source: cnet, photo .: wikimedia

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