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Retra on Aug 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nea...

Breakthrough Starshot will get you to a negligible number of stars. Fewer than ten, probably. You think one in ten stars has life?

dTal on Aug 13, 2017 [–]

That wouldn't necessarily be a surprising figure. I might even be tempted to assign a similar probability to finding life elsewhere in the Solar System.

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