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By HazraelPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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We consist of distinguished projects with high ambitions. Fund to find intelligent life. The Breakthrough Starshot spacecraft plan has captured the public's attention. It was humanity's first step into space far from our solar system. There is nothing wrong if we put our dreams first because we will act better to achieve our goals. So get ready to step away from the solar system.

To take a long step, you have to take a small step first. Milner proposed "Star Chips" - which researchers could launch in a few decades. Size and mass are the enemy when sprinting at high speeds. Using the latest technology spaceships are too big and heavy to accelerate at certain speeds in space.

To launch the spacecraft more easily, the plan is to equip each StarChip with "light sails"—thin sheets built from lightweight polymers that can be folded in space. Hit the light screen with a high-powered laser above the earth giving the StarChip ¼ the speed of light in minutes. Then StarChip will continue to be in space.

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The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking, an initiative from the science department, is impatient with the plan to explore the stars. Space travel is essential if humanity is to live longer if the earth is likely to be hit by an asteroid of enormous size, or radiation strong enough to wipe out life on Earth.

In 2016 there is good news because soon humans will explore space. Astronomers have now identified thousands of other planets outside our solar system. But the problem is this planet is far from Earth. So it is quite difficult to send and return the technology we have now. But there is a planet close to our solar system. That is Proxima B.

The European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of this exoplanet in August 2016.

Proxima B orbits Proxima Centauri, which is one of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri System - a solar system close to our own. The latest investigation says Proxima B could be used as a habitation. In October 2016, there were reports that the planet may have an ocean like Earth. At the same time, the Alpha Centauri star system is where Milner and his fellow scientists intend to release the StarChip there.

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Light- travels faster than anything in space. It can take 4 years to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri. If the Breakthrough Starshot Spaceship takes 20 to 30 years. With that kind of distance, it's better to just send it to Mars. 500,000 closer to Earth than Alpha Centauri.-expected to take 8 months with the latest technology.

StarChip may be in a position to send back images of Proxima B, and maybe the ocean will be there in the next 50 years. By the time the image arrives, chances are, we'll have found the first habitable planet. It is also possible that the image will show evidence of the existence of aliens on the planet.

If we do not find strong evidence of aliens on Mars or in other interstellar regions.

For a billionaire, virtually anything is possible. Although reaching the stars seems impossible at first Yuri Milner, a venture capitalist, and physicist, announced in 2016 that he wants to send a fleet of spacecraft some 40 trillion kilometers (25 trillion miles), or 4.3 light years, through space to a nearby star system.

For the best future that humans hold. We shouldn't give up because there is much more than meets the eye.Together we stand and make a difference to our new generations years to come.

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