Tiny spacecraft could travel across interstellar space with this 'trampoline' lightsail

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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day carry tiny spacecraft to distant star systems.

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This is how we encounter an alien civilization, if there is one nearby. They see our probes that just so happen to have an energy source which points right back to us.