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dustofdeath t1_iu1pz3o wrote

Reply to comment by gwardotnet in How long do you predict it will take before a probe reaches a habitable exoplanetand actually sends back footage of alien life? by sky_shrimp

Proxima is 4.6 light years. Voyager is currently around 0.005% of that speed.

Or 92000 years to travel.

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Apostastrophe t1_iu1zk2l wrote

Voyager isn’t propelled by laser sail propulsion though. There have been papers written, showing we could send laser-solar sail probes to the Centauri stars in a timescale of decades not centuries with current technology.

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