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> At near lightspeed, a pea-sized rock will kill your spaceship Why travel in a spaceship? If there's 100,000 starless planets for every star in the galaxy, th
by vorg 8y ago
> At near lightspeed, a pea-sized rock will kill your spaceship
Why travel in a spaceship? If there's 100,000 starless planets for every star in the galaxy, then travel between stars on one of them instead. Build the habitations 10 km below water to avoid radiation. Travel at 0.1% light speed instead and get to the nearest star in 5000 yrs. Enjoy the journey, and slip into an orbit around the target star.
Speaking of pea-sized rocks, periodically fire one laden with electronics/optics/quantumics at the target star at near light speed and receive its transmissions for recon.
- antisthenes 8y agoPowered by what?
- nickwalton00 8y agoI mean that would only take the energy of 200 Quadrillion Hiroshima nuclear bombs. No biggy.
- vorg 8y agoThe planets will already be moving when captured. Mine them for energy and make adjustments to their trajectory so they'll enter into an orbit in the target star system. Drill a hole through the center for firing the pea-sized bullets. Using the recon from the bullets, find out more about the gravitational state of the star system and make small early adjustments to your own trajectory to compensate.
- restalis 8y ago"periodically fire one laden [rock] with electronics/optics/quantumics at the target star at near light speed and receive its transmissions for recon" These would act as space weather beacons, forming some kind of illuminated space (high)way. An interesting idea! As for the rogue planets, although I envision humans having some use for them, I doubt it will be for interstellar travel the way you describe.
- vorg 8y agoIf it's impossible for humans to move between stars in tiny capsules, then capturing rogue planets may be the only option.