The Aurora . Humanity’s first interstellar probe. It had taken thirty years and the GDP of a mid-sized continent to build. Two weeks ago, it had arrived at Proxima Centauri b and begun transmitting data that would rewrite every textbook from here to the Andromeda Galaxy.
That was the real-time cost of knowing . 2.1 gdps
Lia swallowed. “Six hundred and eighty billion. And climbing.” The Aurora
The meter ticked past for the 713th second. 2.1 gdps