Starshot with Stanton Friedman

Get the coffee going, get the tea or a beverage of choice. Get in that comfy chair , settle in and get ready for an exceptional ride tonight. The legend returns: Stan Friedman is here.There is a new initiative put together by Stephen Hawking, the uber rich Yuri Milner and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg called: Breakthrough Starshot. Essentially what they want to do is put one hundred million dollars behind a project that will launch a robobotic spacecraft at one fifth the speed of light to the Alpha Centauri star system, at a distance of 4.37 light years: or 25 trillion miles. In order to achieve this feat, they will utilize something called a starchip and lightsail. The idea is to propel the craft along by light. The weight of the craft would be less than a piece of paper.