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Multistage rocket using ion engines. Remember this is over interstellar distances (>4 lightyears), so you have multiple years, if not decades or centuries to ac
by a1369209993 5y ago
Multistage rocket using ion engines. Remember this is over interstellar distances (>4 lightyears), so you have multiple years, if not decades or centuries to accellerate.
This does get back to the "Why didn't we RKKV it millions of years before intellegent life even existed, much less had a opportunity to hide, based on biosignatures in the atmosphere?", though.
- gilbetron 5y agoOk, that gets us to maybe 0.3% of the speed of light on something small, which isn't very interesting. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22140/what-is-the-maximum-speed-an-ion-engine-can-propel-a-spacecraft-at https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22140/what-is-the-...