Stephen Hawking & Mark Zuckerberg Alien Finding Project Blog :
Starshot Project : Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerburg launch the most ambitious alien finding project ever.
Tiny Rockets are going to be sent into space to study the far universe in the most ambitious space exploration project in history.
The hugely ambitious project could reveal deep secrets of the universe and will allow people to photograph one of the most likely places to hold life on other worlds.
The Starshot Project hopes to get the tiny robots out to the Alpha Centauri Star System, 25 Trillions miles away. Getting through normal means would take 30,000 years - but the new project hopes that using the tiny rockets will allow them to get there in just 20 years.
The craft will be "gram-scale nano craft", according to Yuri Milner, which will make their way through space using a "sail pushed by a light Beam". Their design will allow them to fly at 25 per cent of light Speed. The Program will search for Goldilocks Planets, meaning Planets like Earth that are in a Temperate Zone to contain water in Liquid form.
The prerequisite to all Biological Life on any Planet, is to have Water in Liquid Form on it's Surface.
