> You're missing the point entirely I think not. > "covering interstellar distances" is misleading It can be read in 2 ways yes (is the interstellar distance

> You're missing the point entirely I think not. > "covering interstellar distances" is misleading It can be read in 2 ways yes (is the interstellar distance crossed by the swarm who do that together, or does the radius of the swarm encompass interstellar distance) but it's clear which one is intended. Again, "The swarm ends up around 100,000km wide" tells you which one it is. Non-naïve people know or look up that 100,000km is not even an interplanetary distance, let alone an interstellar one. It's relatively tightly bunched when crossing the 40,208,000,000,000 km to Proxima Centauri. Yes I look this kind of thing up. > a certain naivete in thinking about space travel that compromises Don't be absurd.