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> Mind you, this simulation is conservative. It assumes that the ships have a range limited to 10 light years — about a dozen stars are within this distance of
by unmdplyr 5y ago
> Mind you, this simulation is conservative. It assumes that the ships have a range limited to 10 light years — about a dozen stars are within this distance of Earth — and travel at 1% the speed of light.
For comparison the fastest we have done is 200 km/sec and that's doing various gravity gymnastics by Parker Solar probe. 1% speed of light is about 3,000 km/sec.
- raxxorrax 5y ago> 200 km/sec That also came with a lot of gravitational debt very close to the sun. So it is even worse than it sounds. There was also another thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27526803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27526803 This article says the universe is very old, I think this probably is also "bad astronomy".