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Even without FTL travel, just having constant acceleration at 1g is enough to travel the width of the galaxy in 12 years ship-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by kindle-dev 5y ago
Even without FTL travel, just having constant acceleration at 1g is enough to travel the width of the galaxy in 12 years ship-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration#:~:text=At%20a%20constant%20acceleration%20of,would%20take%20about%2024%20years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac....
- rsynnott 5y agoThat is a _huge_ 'just', tho. That's a lot of energy.
- htrp 5y agoWelcome to the delta V problem....
- jandrese 5y agoTry plugging 12 years of 1G acceleration into the Rocket Equation. If reactionless drives remain science fiction this mode of travel is flat impossible. There literally isn't enough mass in the solar system.