Travel 4 light years in 20 years.....

[adultinnovation]

Breakthrough Starshot

Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail spacecraft named StarChip, to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.37 light-years away.


https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/target/3

Eventually, the scientists calculate that a 50- to 70-gigawatt array that is 10 kilometers by 10 kilometers large in Earth orbit could propel a gram-sized wafer-like spacecraft with a 1-meter-wide sail to more than 25 percent of the speed of light after about 10 minutes of illumination, which could reach Mars in 30 minutes and Alpha Centauri in about 20 years. The researchers suggest this array could launch roughly 40,000 relativistic wafer-sized probes per year — each “wafersat” would be a complete miniature spacecraft, carrying cameras, communications, power and other systems.

[CurrentlySober]

I love shit like this

I always kinda find myself imaging what life will be like in my Grandsons lifetime, but i always seem to base it upon tech that we have today, just getting better. When you think that it will probably happen via a method that isn't actually poossible, at least not QUITE poossible... YET... It really sets my mind spinning