“The suitable candidate must love speed, will be expected manage for years without food or drink, and should be able to withstand high levels of radiation. If you meet all three of these requirements, you could be the right candidate for our upcoming space program.”
This could have been the wording of the job advertisement placed by scientists behind Project Starlight, had they been considering candidates for their future star mission that are able to read. But all humans are, unfortunately, disqualified for the role under at least two of the key criteria. And besides, the planned space probes will be tiny, so that they can be launched towards the stars by means of a powerful laser on Earth.
So the Project Starlight scientists from the University of California in Santa Barbara aim to crew the probes with
