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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by spaetzleesser on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:11AM (#30310411)
As far as I know this would be cell phone sized with no way of slowing down. It would cross entire solar systems within a few hours.
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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by Tepix on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:04AM (#30374572)
There's no way to slow down, true.

Let's see... Neptune's orbital diameter 8.3 light hours.

At 10% c (speed of light) you would need 83 hours. Yes, insane speed, yet hopefully enough time to take quite a few pictures.

Also the plan is not to send a single "disc", but many (thousands?). Together they could potentially provide a treasure trove of data from within the alien solar system.

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