Comment by smeeger Comment by smeeger 4 days ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News why have we not shot a probe toward the nearest foreign star?
Copy Link tombrandis 3 days ago Next Collapse Comment - There was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshothttps://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber... Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link foxglacier 4 days ago Prev Collapse Comment - I'm not sure we'd be capable of receiving any signal it sent back to us, would we? Reply View | 0 replies
There was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber...