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I smiled as well but with a slowly but steadily accelerating ship we can reach half the light speed and get there in 50 years. It put things in the realm of "po
by sametmax 7y ago
I smiled as well but with a slowly but steadily accelerating ship we can reach half the light speed and get there in 50 years. It put things in the realm of "possible" which is amazing.
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- gameswithgo 7y agonow do some napkin math on the reaction mass and energy you need to slowly accelerate that much for that long
- jniedrauer 7y agoAnd the energy transferred by an impact with a piece of dust at luminal speeds
- interfixus 7y agoNow do some napkin math on the amount of gears and levers you need to reach such calculating power, mr. Babbage.
- loteck 7y agodon't forget, you're going to have to slow down at some point, too
- carapace 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchship > Torchship (or torch ship) is a term used by Robert A. Heinlein in several of his science fiction novels and short stories to describe fictional rocket ships that can maintain high accelerations indefinitely, thus approaching the speed of light. The term has subsequently been used by other authors to describe similar kinds of fictional spaceships.