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STEPHEN Hawking’s plans for a small space craft that could fly to our closest planet in as little as 20 years has been approved by NASA.
The tiny space ship, which was dreamed up by a team of scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking, would be flown to Proxima b, a newly-discovered Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri – the closest neighbouring star to the Sun.
It occupies in the "habitable zone" of the star, where temperatures are cool enough for the water, and therefore life, to thrive, and has a rocky surface like ours.
Plans for a fleet of the self-repairing space crafts that may be able to reach the planet, were unveiled in April, but now NASA has confirmed it is working on initial designs.
There was concern the small craft, which would fly at 15 to 20 percent of the speed of light, could not survive the 4.37 light-years, in excess of 25 trillion miles, mission due to radiation damage causing it to break down on the journey that would take between 20 and 30 years.
In March 2016 Scientists in Singapore introduced "Nadine," a humanoid robot, who can think, feel and even recognize people.
In 50 years we will be moving to an off-world planet inhabited by replicants. It will probably be owned by the Trump children and the female replicants will look like Melania Trump and have big lips.
The tiny space ship, which was dreamed up by a team of scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking, would be flown to Proxima b, a newly-discovered Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri – the closest neighbouring star to the Sun.
It occupies in the "habitable zone" of the star, where temperatures are cool enough for the water, and therefore life, to thrive, and has a rocky surface like ours.
Plans for a fleet of the self-repairing space crafts that may be able to reach the planet, were unveiled in April, but now NASA has confirmed it is working on initial designs.
There was concern the small craft, which would fly at 15 to 20 percent of the speed of light, could not survive the 4.37 light-years, in excess of 25 trillion miles, mission due to radiation damage causing it to break down on the journey that would take between 20 and 30 years.
In March 2016 Scientists in Singapore introduced "Nadine," a humanoid robot, who can think, feel and even recognize people.
In 50 years we will be moving to an off-world planet inhabited by replicants. It will probably be owned by the Trump children and the female replicants will look like Melania Trump and have big lips.
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