#breakthroughstarshot — Public Fediverse posts

"While that initiative ran into funding problems—despite an initial $100 million backing by Mark Zuckerberg and others—the idea of light propulsion isn’t going away."

Ahh, Tech Bros overpromising again and leading people up the garden path.

We will get to Alpha Centauri DESPITE these rich perverts, not because of.

https://interestingengineering.com/space/light-propulsion-metajets-alpha-centauri-travel

#Space #AlphaCentauri #Interstellar #BreakthroughStarshot #MarkZuckerberg #TechBros #LightPropulsion

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakthrough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar/

Avi fucking Loeb....

#BreakthroughStarshot #AviLoeb #Space

We won't reach Mars, and we won't reach the stars with Capitalism

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakthrough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar/

#BreakthroughStarshot #Space

Un’ultraleggera vela laser vibra come un trampolino sotto la spinta della luce: il Caltech testa un sistema chiave per la propulsione fotonica, aprendo la strada a sonde interstellari ultraveloci. Un passo in più verso Alpha Centauri?

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/02/propulsione-fotonica-il-caltech-testa-trampolini-di-luce/

#propulsionefotonica #spazio #BreakthroughStarshot #Caltech #viaggispaziali

What Happened to the $100 Million Dream to Send Sub-Gram-Sized Cameras to Alpha Centauri https://petapixel.com/2024/07/22/what-happened-to-the-100-million-dream-to-send-sub-gram-sized-cameras-to-alpha-centauri/ #breakthroughstarshot #Technology #technology #lightsail #solarsail #science #Space #space #News

#Guardian 📆 Tue 4 Jul 2023 If successful, #BreakthroughStarshot could get to #AlphaCentauri 🪐 not in 76,000 years but in just 20. It would revolutionise our understanding of the #universe 🌌 by enabling closeup observations of #exoplanets and their atmospheres, and potentially even detecting signs of life.

In 100 years’ time the question ‘are we alone in the universe?’ may seem as ridiculous as the idea of the #Earth being at the centre of the #universe, when we are in contact with a dazzling array of alien life 👽 out there. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/04/look-back-and-marvel-how-will-todays-science-be-viewed-in-2123