How Breakthrough Starshot Quietly Fell Apart

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Since Breakthrough Starshot was announced back in 2006 we started hearing less and less about the cause. But now it's gone practically to zero. What happened to the most realistic attempt to send a starship to another star system? Finding out in this interview.

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📜 How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakthrough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar/

00:00 Intro
01:56 What happened to Breakthrough Starshot
08:37 Where did the money go?
15:02 When did it all fall apart
23:51 Alternative leadership
26:07 Current obsessions
28:03 Final thoughts


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