00:00There's a scientist that's pitching an idea for how to get us to visit a black hole.
00:04Now, Visit's doing a lot of work there.
00:07This is not a person going to a black hole.
00:10In theory, he hopes that we could build a swarm of these tiny little micro spacecraft
00:17powered by, they're called solar sails.
00:19It's basically like a big, you know, a sail, like a ship.
00:23But they collect photons instead of wind.
00:25So you could shoot a laser beam at them and they zoom like crazy fast because they're
00:30really small and they're getting powered by light.
00:32These things can reach, in theory, up to like a third of the speed of light.
00:36So very, very fast.
00:38Could get us somewhere very quickly, much more quickly than we could send a rocket.
00:42Problem is, this theory relies on several things.
00:47One, it relies on the building of micro swarms.
00:51I'm going to just run that one sentence back really quick.
00:55I'm sorry.
00:57One, it relies on the building of swarms of these microspaceships, which has not happened
01:02yet.
01:03Two, relies on solar sail technology.
01:06Does not quite exist yet, at least not in this like specific form we're working on it.
01:12We're not quite there yet.
01:13Three, relies on a black hole being like 20 to 25 light years from Earth.
01:18There are possibilities that that's true.
01:21We don't have proof for it yet.
01:23But if all of those things come to pass, this scientist is estimating around 30 years or
01:30so for us to actually get up close and personal with a black hole, which would be pretty cool.
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