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If you were doing it today, you’d be better off putting your effort into improved propulsion. A time may come when you hit the limits and need to carry out a ve
by mikeash 8y ago
If you were doing it today, you’d be better off putting your effort into improved propulsion. A time may come when you hit the limits and need to carry out a very long project to send a probe to another star, but we’re not there now.
- kijin 8y agoThere's always going to be better propulsion just around the corner, at least until you reach something like 0.999c. At some point you just say "fuck it, we're launching this probe now."
- mikeash 8y agoThe point when your probe arrives soonest is not the point where your propulsion technology is fastest, certainly, but that point is very unlikely to be now.