Hawking’s Interstellar Starship Would Revolutionize the Search for Alien Life
Yesterday , Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner made the mind - foul up announcement that theywant to build a fleet of interstellar spacecraftthat can journey at relativistic speeds — up to 20 per centum the speed of brightness . But it ’s not just about reaching our penny-pinching star organisation , Alpha Centauri , although that is the Modern Breakthrough project ’s moonshot . The engineering Hawking and Milner are proposing could revolutionize the lookup for exotic spirit within our solar system ....