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Fusion rockets would be able to get over 1% c. I think the theoretical maximum for fusion is around 10%.
by DennisP 3y ago
Fusion rockets would be able to get over 1% c. I think the theoretical maximum for fusion is around 10%.
- Retric 3y agoFusion rockets might be able to get a sufficiently large spacecraft over 1% c. If you’re instead sending multiple generations of craft and waiting until each succeeds then it’s 1/n %c etc. Colonization using a massive habitat capable of extreme redundancy and asteroid mining could be a completely viable solution to colonization. But such a structure wouldn’t be light. Hitting 1% c could very well take megastructures that a civilization would rather spend on redundant craft etc. We can dream, but we’re nowhere close to being able to say what’s actually viable.