NASA Selects a Wild Plan to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri With Thousands of Tiny Probes - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    According to Scott Manley’s video on the topic the probes would need to arrive at the correct time in order to form what is effectively a huge phased array antenna.

    Only then is the combined transmission power of these tiny probes large enough to be received on earth.