Intriguing...
Sailing across vast distances.
Stephen Hawking is backing a project to send tiny spacecraft to another star system within a generation, bbc.com reports.
They would travel trillions of miles -- far further than any previous craft.
The $100 million research program to develop the computer chip-sized "starships" was launched by the billionaire Yuri Milner and is supported by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to bbc.
For an intriguing video: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36025706
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