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🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Four most realistic chances of finding alien life. |
0:10.0 | Do aliens exist? |
0:12.0 | That's a question mankind has asked itself for centuries. |
0:15.4 | In these days with our powerful rockets and satellites, it seems the question could possibly |
0:20.4 | be answered soon. The stories on this list are ambitious and have generated |
0:25.3 | buzz because they seek to answer one of humanity's biggest questions. These are the |
0:30.0 | four most realistic chances of finding alien life. |
0:36.1 | Number four, the Breakthrough Starshot Project. |
0:48.0 | Man's curiosity knows no bounds and in the world of science and technology, often curiosity intersects in a way that could possibly bring even the most outlandish of dreams into reality. |
0:55.0 | One of the top scientific thinkers of today, Stephen Hawking, together with Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg and Russian |
1:01.2 | tycoon Yuri Milner, have teamed up to create a unique project involving tiny rockets and finding alien life. |
1:09.0 | Dubbed is the breakthrough Starshot project, it's been deemed a philanthropic initiative. |
1:15.2 | Its main goal is to discover alien life in the universe, as well as to explore deep space regions |
1:20.8 | in search of planets that could potentially sustain life. |
1:24.0 | In terms of particular regions, most astronomers believe that the Alpha |
1:29.0 | Centuri, which is about 4.37 light years away |
1:32.7 | and considered the closest star system to Earth |
1:35.5 | is comprised of planets that are deemed capable |
1:38.0 | of sustaining human beings. |
1:40.3 | So how exactly do they plan to investigate these far off places? |
1:45.0 | Breakthrough Starshot is hoping to launch thousands of nanocrafts, |
1:49.0 | which are tiny robotic spacecrafts into space, |
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