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Fusion propulsion, clever shielding and general relativity gets you anywhere in the galaxy in your lifetime, or so I thought …
by danw1979 4y ago
Fusion 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...