We already informed you about Project Centauri, but although this information was no doubt interesting, they blended in the quantum of much more interesting news about the war in Europe. So we will remind you whole story.
This arguable project was initiated by one professor Nicholas Montano more than twenty years ago.A small science team assembled by professor Montano begun researching a possibility of colonization of a new planets orbiting other stars – particularly the nearest star to our Sun, Alpha Centauri. Professor Montano claimed that this project will solve the problems of human race and it will bring new resources and so on, but it was clear to both professional and ordinary communities how absurd this claim is. Survey of Mars and other planets proved that there are no exploitable resources at all. And additionally, there is very low probability that the target star will have some planets at all! Project Centauri was harmless intellectual exercise in the beginning, but it soon changed into a devourer of money and resources, as Professor Montano managed to convince not just European governments, but also NASA and various private foundations and scientific organizations. Almost no one believed in the successful completion of the project, especially because most of the research was done in the war ravaged Europe. Death of Professor Montano almost meant the end of the story, but his son Terry Montano proved himself as an able administrator and leader and led the project to it’s completion. Just few hours ago there was a huge metal monster orbiting around the Earth, called the Columbus, also nicknamed the “wasteship”. Columbus is built mostly from space waste, collected from the orbit (mostly last stages of old rockets) and from excess technology bought from the whole world. There were some experts telling anyone willing to listen that the fusion drive of the Columbus is insane and that it will cause the explosion of the ship after the launch, but Columbus was launched three hours ago and it is still accelerating.A crew of forty people is already sleeping in their hibernators (this technology was designed by the Centauri team specially for the ship) and they will sleep for many years. They will wake when their ship finishes it’s more than four light year long journey and arrives at the Centauri star system. If they will indeed finish their journey. And then? We can be pretty sure there’s only disappointment waiting for the crew and captain Montano, because they will probably wake up in a star system empty except for a few asteroids and they will have to sleep many more long years to get back here, to their true home.
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