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Actually, people are already working on getting to Alpha Centauri within a reasonable timescale and without exhausting the world's GDP [1] !

[1] https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3



I'm not saying it's impossible, but I wouldn't trust these guys to do anything. The funding is basically all from one russian oligarch who probably does it for fun then gets board. Their last initiative was much less ambitious, yet after several years the website just says "Details of the competition will be announced soon."

[1] https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/2





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