{"id":3551,"date":"2016-04-15T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2016-04-15T03:24:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:24:45","slug":"kaku-on-hawkings-starshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/kaku-on-hawkings-starshot\/","title":{"rendered":"KAKU ON HAWKING&#8217;S STARSHOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/4846585037001\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kaku-fox-business-kennedy-hawking-star-shot.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Watch Video\" title=\"Click to Watch Video\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full noborder\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/search-results\/search?q=kaku&#038;sort=latest\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fox-business.png\" alt=\"Click to Visit FOX Business\" title=\"Click to Visit FOX Business\" width=\"152\" height=\"74\" valign=\"bottom\" class=\"alignleft size-full noborder\" \/><\/a>This week, renowned cosmologist, <strong>Stephen Hawking<\/strong>, announced <strong>Breakthrough Starshot<\/strong> &mdash; a hundred-million dollar research and engineering effort funded by Russian scientist and billionaire entrepreneur, <strong>Yuri Milner<\/strong>, and <strong>Facebook<\/strong> founder, <strong>Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong>. The aim, according to <strong>Milner<\/strong>, is to develop <strong><i>&quot;high speed light-driven nano crafts and to lay the foundations for an eventual voyage to <strong>Alpha Centauri<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\"><strong>Dr. Michio Kaku<\/strong><\/a> visited with <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> on <strong>FOX Business<\/strong> for a fun awe-inspiring discussion of <strong>Starshot<\/strong>&#8216;s daring plans to make swarms of tiny spacefaring starships that will explore the cosmos at speeds approaching a thousand times faster than today&#8217;s fastest spacecraft. <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/4846585037001\"><strong>WATCH NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, renowned cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, announced Breakthrough Starshot &mdash; a hundred-million dollar research and engineering effort funded by Russian scientist and billionaire entrepreneur, Yuri Milner, and Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The aim, according to Milner, is to develop &quot;high speed light-driven nano crafts and to lay the foundations for an eventual voyage to Alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153,58,57,59],"tags":[402,239,410,477,448,95,323,335,206,481,483,479,484,478,228,482,232,398,480,142,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}