12-24-2016, 11:15 PM
Yeah, the estimate is something like $5 billion for the project.
One thing I never understood about any one way beamrider is; how does the ship slow down? Can it? I imagine there'd have to be a beam of equal energy at the other end to apply the same amount of thrust in deceleration. Unless we contact some alien race at Proxima Centauri and kindly ask them to build this for us, I can only imagine the probe will reach the destination, and then just keep going until it crashes into something. And I see the probability of my alien theory as infinitesimally small.
One thing I never understood about any one way beamrider is; how does the ship slow down? Can it? I imagine there'd have to be a beam of equal energy at the other end to apply the same amount of thrust in deceleration. Unless we contact some alien race at Proxima Centauri and kindly ask them to build this for us, I can only imagine the probe will reach the destination, and then just keep going until it crashes into something. And I see the probability of my alien theory as infinitesimally small.