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霍金微博提出星球移民计划,谁能来参加呢?

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   今天上午,著名科学家霍金在美国纽约宣布了一项外星探索计划。他们将制造可达到光速1/5的“纳米飞行器”,在未来20年内抵达最接近地球的半人马座阿尔法星宜居带,寻找类地行星……他说,人类迟早要考虑在其他星球生活,飞到另一个星球去生活。我们来想一下,谁能参加?NASA还是别的什么人?我们普通人有机会吗?

  霍金微博原文:

  Greetings to everybody in China from NYC. At the One World Observatory in New York City, Yuri Milner and I launched a mission to the stars. Mark Zuckerberg lent his support by joining the board of our new initiative, Breakthrough Starshot.

  Within the next generation, Breakthrough Starshot aims to develop a ‘nanocraft’ – a gram-scale robotic space probe – and use a light beam to push it to 20 percent of the speed of light. If we are successful, a flyby mission could reach Alpha Centauri about 20 years after launch, and send back images of any planets discovered in the system.

  Albert Einstein once imagined riding on a light beam, and his thought experiment led him to the theory of special relativity. A little over a century later, we have the chance to attain a significant fraction of that speed: 100 million miles an hour. Only by going that fast can we reach the stars on the time-scale of a human life.

  It is exciting to be involved in such an ambitious project, pushing the boundaries of ingenuity and engineering.

 

  我在纽约向中国的各位问好!在纽约城的一号楼观景台,我和尤里·米尔纳启动了“突破摄星”计划 (Breakthrough Starshot),马克·扎克伯格也加入了该计划的董事会,为“突破摄星”助一臂之力。

  在一代人的时间内,“突破摄星”旨在研发出一台“纳米飞行器” —— 一台质量为克级的自动化太空探测器—— 并且通过光束把它推动到五分之一的光速。如果我们成功的话,这个飞掠任务将会在发射后二十年左右到达半人马座阿尔发星,并发送回来在那个星系中发现的行星的图片。

  爱因斯坦曾经幻想在宇宙中乘着一道光线飞驰,这个思想实验为他的狭义相对论奠定了基础。一个多世纪后,我们有机会可以达到光速的一小部分:一亿英里每小时。只有通过这么快的速度,我们才有希望在人类的时间尺度内到达那些恒星。

  这个项目耗资巨大,雄心勃勃地希望探索人类创新和工程学的极限。能参与这样的项目,非常令人兴奋。

  - S.H.