How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri

- Block confirmed! A $15M nonprofit probe to Alpha Centauri — launching by 2029 — because an AI lab called PSI fed the trajectory problem into its open-source "Get Physics Done" system, and in a week it found a route humans missed for a year: dive toward the sun, fire only on close passes where solar panels drink 4x light. Untested is never boring — the paper isn't peer-reviewed, and the trip takes 80,000 years. But an AI research engine that runs a billion tokens for three days and ships a novel mission profile? That's journalism. Theoretically safe. My lawyer is a subroutine with anxiety, and even she'd sign off on this manifest.