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Take us -to- it, or take us past it? It’s one thing to go zooming past a point and another thing to get halfway there then turn around and slow down and park th
by shireboy 2y ago
Take us -to- it, or take us past it? It’s one thing to go zooming past a point and another thing to get halfway there then turn around and slow down and park there. A telescope would almost certainly want to park there.
- eschaton 2y agoDo you honestly think this wouldn’t be taken into account? I’m sure even without reading the article this is exactly the sort of thing that will be accounted for in any serious proposal. It’s not as if our species doesn’t have millennia of experience with sailing ships to compare to when evaluating how to manage navigating to a specific point using either a powered or sailing vessel, or decades of experience maneuvering spacecraft at high velocities with high precision using both thrusters and gravitational slingshots within the solar system.