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A Nuclear Rocket That Could Reach 20% the Speed of Light

• nmstoker 7y ago
  This makes me wonder about the optimal time to proceed (rather than wait for improved technology). Right now progress seems slow, but if advances sped up, it would be a real concern that you could get on a craft with a 20 year journey time, only to arrive and find that during your trip, technology had improved enough that others beat you there.
  • muzika 7y ago
    Seems highly unlikely.
  • mnky9800n 7y ago
    Who cares? You get to be in a spaceship going someplace else in space. Worst that happens is you get there and you get a quicker ride back. Assuming nothing catastrophic happens.