September 8Sep 8 A private company is aiming to launch a low-cost interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest Sun-like stars to our own, in an attempt to tackle several key parts of the Fermi paradox.The Fermi paradox, for those who haven't stumbled across it yet, is basically this: Given the large numbers of stars in the galaxy and universe, and the potential for life that they hold, why have we not yet detected any signs of intelligent alien life? Why the "great silence"?While there are many proposed explanations for the Fermi paradox, varying in their levels of cosmic horror, there are a few simpler suggestions. One is that space is simply too big for interstellar travel to be feasible or desirable to intelligent species. It is this argument that the team hopes to poke holes in, by making us become an intelligent species who desired to send a spaceship to another star system, and then doing it.The team hopes to head to another star system using existing technologies, launching by 2029.Read more about it here.
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