That's a great read, thanks for linking. I am little peeved by the maneuver at the beginning of the story though. You cannot use a slingshot maneuver around th

That's a great read, thanks for linking. I am little peeved by the maneuver at the beginning of the story though. You cannot use a slingshot maneuver around the sun to gain speed relative to the sun - that's simple conservation of energy. I know Geoffrey Landis is NASA scientist, so hard to understand how he could get that wrong, but it seems he did.