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welcome to the khaki ride home for Monday, January 10th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Scientists are working on a plan to shoot tardigrades into interstellar space on lasers.

Plus, the James Webb Space Telescope is so far going better than anyone had dared to imagine.

And Alpaca's favorite New Year's snack, Christmas trees.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Some scientists are thinking of shooting tardigrades into the next solar system with huge lasers that would take up a tenth of the U.S.'s entire power grid while it launches.

Let's start with the actually getting something all the way to Proxima Centauri bit before we move on to the Tartagrades.

So the first human-made object to ever leave our solar system

and enter interstellar space was Voyager 1 back in 2012. But there is a huge distance between the

end of our solar system and the start of the next one. Quoting from the University of Southern

California, Santa Barbara's The Current, the biggest challenge to human-scale interstellar travel

is the enormous distance between Earth and the nearest stars.

The Voyager missions have proven that we can send objects across the 12 billion miles

it takes to exit the bubble surrounding our solar system, the heliosphere,

but the car-sized probes, traveling

at speeds of more than 35,000 miles per hour, took 40 years to reach there, and their distance

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