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kleinbl00 · 1264 days ago · link · · parent · post: Australian National University researchers light up our pathway to another planetary system in major scientific breakthrough
Yeah the authors are Breakthrough Starshot guys, looks like. As Avi Loeb and others have pointed out, once you've got "100 million individual lasers" the cost per probe is effectively zero.So the actual news here is that someone did the math for Breakthrough Starshot?
Another thing to consider though: Why would they send probes here?