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If you're in deep space then you're not near any particular star. That's going to reduce the available starlight by several orders of magnitude, right?
by Quanticles 11y ago
If you're in deep space then you're not near any particular star. That's going to reduce the available starlight by several orders of magnitude, right?
- api 11y agoSure, but if humans are going into deep space (beyond Mars in this case) then we're talking about nuclear propulsion at least which means you've got lots of power.
- jccooper 11y agoWhen people designing real spaceships say "deep space" they mean "beyond Earth orbit", but usually not past Mars. In sci-fi deep space, yes, you'd have next to no solar power. (In fact, it's minimally useful in the solar system past Jupiter.) But if you can get there at all, you're probably not worried about that.
- Quanticles 11y agoMakes sense, thanks