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Stephen Hawking Joins Bid To Seek Life With Tiny Spacecraft

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Apr, 2016 12:39 PM
    NEW YORK — An Internet investor has enlisted famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to help him with a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space.
     
    Yuri Milner announced the $100 million project Tuesday. It's aimed at establishing the feasibility of sending a swarm of tiny spacecraft, each weighing far less than an ounce, to the Alpha Centuri star system.
     
    Powered by energy from a huge, Earth-based laser, the spacecraft would fly at about one-fifth the speed of light. Their target would be a planet with potential for holding life. No such planet has been discovered yet at Alpha Centuri, but experts say one may lurk there.
     
    The spacecraft would take 20 years to reach the star system, where they would make observations and send back data.

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