Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles

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Date	2016-04-14 17:21 -0700
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Subject	Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles
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Sam Wormley
Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles 
> http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/14/474227319/stephen-hawkings-plan-for-interstellar-travel-has-some-earthly-obstacles 


> Houston, We Had A Problem ... Last Year 
> 
> Once the hundreds or thousands of probes leave our solar system, they 
> would be on their own in more ways than one. Physics dictates that 
> communications between Earth and the probes can't happen faster than 
> the speed of light. That means if one of the probes runs into trouble 
> a light year into its journey, then it will take a year for its 
> distress call to reach home. It will take another year for mission 
> control's instructions to reach the little craft. 
> 
> It's safe to say that in the two years it takes to get help, the 
> probe will have either fixed itself or died. 
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Well, that's why you send 1000

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Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 19:07 -0500
  Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 17:21 -0700
  Re: Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-15 00:36 +0000
  Re: Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-04-15 16:40 -0700

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