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31 light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is about 4. Don't think I'd like to visit either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b https://en.wikipedia.
by RyanShook 4y ago
31 light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is about 4. Don't think I'd like to visit either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b
I'd like to visit Kepler-452b but it's 1,500 light-years away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452b
- djmips 4y agoWhy not Wolf 1069B? Kepler-452b has 2X Earth gravity.
- BeefWellington 4y agoKepler-452b has 2X Earth gravity. Eternal leg day. But seriously, these are all too far away for us to reach in any of our lifetimes, barring some insane discovery that breaks all the rules as we know them.
- danw1979 4y agoFusion propulsion, clever shielding and general relativity gets you anywhere in the galaxy in your lifetime, or so I thought …
- vkou 4y agoYou 'only' need to maintain a steady 1g acceleration for years, rather than seconds. (What's a mere six orders of magnitude when it comes to physical engineering, anyways? Just spin up a few more jobs on the borg clusters, and if that doesn't work, Moore's law will rescue you in a decade or two...)
- floxy 4y agoRoundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails: https://web.archive.org/web/20220826053918/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1079.9524&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220826053918/https://citeseerx...