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When you're about 2000 km from a neutron star, the tidal effect is 1 G per meter. Above 5 G's per meter you have life-threatening medical problems, and around 1
by ahazred8ta 2y ago
When you're about 2000 km from a neutron star, the tidal effect is 1 G per meter. Above 5 G's per meter you have life-threatening medical problems, and around 100 you'd be physically pulled apart.
- rbanffy 2y agoOk. So let’s keep our spaceships at a safer distance. Still probably good enough to launch at a sizeable fraction of the speed of light only needing the propellant to brake. Sounds like prime real estate to me.