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Another back of the napkin thing - if one manages to maintain +1G acceleration for the first half of the trip and -1G for the second half, one can get to Mars i
by huhtenberg 11y ago
Another back of the napkin thing - if one manages to maintain +1G acceleration for the first half of the trip and -1G for the second half, one can get to Mars in 1 to 3 days, with the top speed of about 1000 km/s.
- rubidium 11y agoWhich does provide the interesting feature that if we could method of propulsion that gets to c/3 in a day or two, we could just use the acceleration of the ship to provide artificial gravity on-board, and flip the ship around mid-trip to provide artificial gravity during the deceleration.