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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Do You Think Proxima Centauri Could Be Possible?

The only technology that can do that is the light sail technology. You basically produce a very powerful laser beam on Earth. So you can collect sunlight with photovoltaic cells or whatever and then convert it into stored energy. And if you shine on it for a few minutes, it will traverse the distance that is five times the distance to the moon.

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