Earlier today , Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milnerannounced a thrilling plantodeploy petite “ nanocrafts ” to the second - secretive starin lookup of intelligent life . And in thefirst post - announcement interviewwith ABC News , Hawking talks about how the exploitation of interstellar space vehicle will ameliorate life for homo .
On “ World News Tonight , ” David Muir spoke with Hawking and Milner at One World Observatory , just after theirpress conference . Although Hawking point out that the chance of regain spirit in the nearest solar scheme was “ unlikely , ” it was the technologyto get us there . “ The rapid advancement of outer space exploration has improve multitude ’s life in the yesteryear , ” he said . “ So it would not be surprising if it brought benefit . ”
Once launched , the $ 100 million opening move , advert Breakthrough Starshot , could make Alpha Centauri in 20 years , but it ’s decisive that the groundwork starts now , tell Milner : “ If we ’re not going to achieve it in our lifetime , then we ask to lapse the baton to the next propagation . ”
Because this is Hawking , he normalize all of these cerebral thoughts with hissignature zingers , including a dig at the Kardashians .
look on the whole thing atABC News .
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