By EOY 2050, will humanity have sent a probe to another star system and received meaningful info?
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Even a Project Daedalus fusion rocket launched today would reach the nearest star by 2059, missing it by 9 years.
Perhaps Breakthrough Starshot can make it in time, but they have, like 1.5 years remaining for development, assembly and launch.
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