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And Project Orion is old nuclear pulse tech. The current state of the art thought on that kind of thing is slighty less crude than dropping fission bombs behind
by rms 16y ago
And Project Orion is old nuclear pulse tech. The current state of the art thought on that kind of thing is slighty less crude than dropping fission bombs behind a big shield.
I think that once a habitable planet is 99.9% confirmed instead of 90% confirmed, there will be an unprecedented international cooperation in order to build a probe that can get there at .1-.25c.
It's an interesting time to be a human.
- gagi 16y agoBefore I came here, I did my own brief (and likely inaccurate) calculations: Distance to Gliese 581 g: 21 light years Speed of Helios 2 (fastest manmade object in space) = ~ 241350 km/h Time for Helos 2 to reach Gliese 581g ~= 93 907 years I couldn't help but think of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot". 93 thousand years is an awful long time. I'm glad I'm wrong.
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- pavel_lishin 16y agoBut the Helios probes aren't constantly accelerating.