David Kipping
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And then, of course, how do you... What if it hits dust on the way?
That's why it's on its side now.
So it's twisted over on its side to try and avoid smashing into dust particles on its journey.
Hopefully a flock of birds doesn't catch a stray.
And here it comes into Proxima Centauri, into the Alpha Centauri system.
There's Proxima down the right.
And so it's going to fly past...
There is actually a planet there.
We know there's a planet there.
It's going to fly past it and try and snap a photo.
And then beam that bad boy back.
I mean, how do you even get the data transmission rate to beam an image back?
Just imagine if it gets there and we see lights.
Yeah, obviously if it's completely recognizable, there's nothing we can really do to detect it.
But when we look – I mean we basically know two things about the universe in terms of life in it.
We know that we have not been colonized, right, as far as we can tell.