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Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by jerf on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @01:34PM (#11481658)
Their speed isn't particularly relevant, what matters more is their energy. As big as that number is to us, it's still pretty insignificant; there's a lot of objects already traveling around with us in our own solar system with 70kT (per PaulHoule in other comments) of energy. A looooooot of objects. In the grand scheme of things, this is a rounding error on a rounding error. We are small.
Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by ryao on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @06:19PM (#11484073)
It would be rather anticlimatic if it hit one of them before reaching Alpha Centauri and no one noticed.
Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by simonh on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:51AM (#11486710)
That's one of the reasons they want to send thousands of them.