Stephen Hawking /Yuri Milner announce plans to build fleet of interstellar spacecraft

[sukumvit boy]

Fleets of hundreds or thousands of smart phone sized
spacecraft with 'sails' pushes by earth bound lasers will reach speeds of 20% the speed of light.
Next stop Alpha Centauri , 4.3 light years from us "within one generation".
http://gizmodo.com/hawkings-interstellar-starship-would-change-astrobiolog-1770552475

http://www.space.com/32560-alpha-centauri-what-we-know.html

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[trish]

Fleets of hundreds or thousands of smart phone sized
spacecraft with 'sails' pushes by earth bound lasers will reach speeds of 20% the speed of light.
Next stop Alpha Centauri...lending new meaning to "ET call home."

[martin48]

I knew there would be a smartphone app soon for this sort of thing