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You can keep on shortening the trip by another day, but it requires more energy each day you take off. At a certain point (somewhere around 5-6 months) it make
by danielweber 14y ago
You can keep on shortening the trip by another day, but it requires more energy each day you take off.
At a certain point (somewhere around 5-6 months) it makes more sense to use that energy to give yourself a bigger ship than to take another day off.
(I'm glad to see no one saying any more that the VASIMR could do it in 39 days. That was an annoying distraction.)