Russian scientist and billionaire entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking announced a space explo...
Russian scientist and billionaire entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking announced a space exploration project called Breakthrough Starshot in New York, Tuesday.nnSOT, Yuri Milner, Russian entrepreneur (English): "Breakthrough Starshot is a hundred-million dollar research and engineering programme. It aims to demonstrate proof of concept of high speed light driven nanocrafts and to lay the foundations for an eventual voyage to Alpha Centauri. The ultimate cost of such a venture is expected to compare with the biggest international science collaborations such as CERN." *MULTIPLE FRAMES AT SOURCE*nnSOT, Yuri Milner, Russian entrepreneur (English): "Over a few minutes, this nanocraft accelerates to about 20 percent of the light speed. This is a hundred million miles and hour. This is a thousand times faster than the fastest spacecraft today, or a million times faster than a car on a highway. At that speed, it would fly by Alpha Centauri about 20 years after launch. It could capture images of possible planets, other scientific data and send them back home in a beam of light." *MULTIPLE FRAMES AT SOURCE* *MULTIPLE FRAMES AT SOURCE*nnSOT, Yuri Milner, Russian entrepreneur (English): "For the first time in human history we can do more than just gaze at the stars, we can actually reach them."nnSOT, Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist (English): "The limit that confronts us now is a great void between us and the stars, but now we can transcend it with light beams, light sails and the lightest spacecraft ever built, we can launch a mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation."nnSOT, Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist (English): "Today we commit to the next great leap into the cosmos, because we are human and our nature is to fly."nnnnVideo ID: 20160412-047nVideo on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tvnContact: cd@ruptly.tvnnTwitter: http://twitter.com/RuptlynFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/RuptlynLiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/RuptlynVine: https://vine.co/RuptlynInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/RuptlynYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RuptlyTVnDailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/ruptly Less
