The founders of #Starcloud have created a nonprofit that aims to send a spacecraft on an 80,000-year journey to #AlphaCentauri, with launch set for 2029. "The mission will happen," says Philip Johnston, president of the #FermiExplorer Mission. "There will not be a no-go." https://www.geekwire.com/2026/fermi-explorer-alpha-centauri-80000-years/ #Space #Interstellar #Travel
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@alanboyle it would be preferable to help ensure that there's humans and life on earth 80,000 years from now by not wasting what little resources we have left on nonsense like this.
the earth is currently warming at 0.35-0.48C per decade depending on who's estimates you look at. that's the result of more than 200 years of increasing fossil fuel usage. do the math on when our oceans will boil into the atmosphere at that rate.
