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Well in the context of the paper, the fact that the interstellar drive in Traveller manages to avoid the relativistic affects of lightspeed travel makes things
by whartung 3y ago
Well in the context of the paper, the fact that the interstellar drive in Traveller manages to avoid the relativistic affects of lightspeed travel makes things much easier.
- PeterCorless 3y agoMuch. To me, the thing that really needs to be more realistically considered is interplanetary (not interstellar) trade. Lightspeed-grade goods and services (media, data) have one "cost," and inorganic atomic-structure goods and services (gaseous/liquid/solid matter) have another "cost", and organic biological matter — especially living matter — will have an even greater cost still. Getting information to Mars will be far cheaper in energy and currency than getting a crate of parts there; and that will be far cheaper still than getting humans or their biological foodstuffs back-and-forth.