The nearest star beyond our own has been burning for four and a half billion years. Voyager 1, our fastest spacecraft, would take seventy-three thousand years to reach it. The most credible proposal we have accelerates a sail the size of a thumbnail to twenty percent of the speed of light. A crewed
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