The team has figured out that will super-thin structures made of This specific composite can transform infrared light waves into a momentum that will would likely accelerate a probe to 134,000,000 mph.
I wouldn’t want to hit a deer at that speed.
I think a speck of dust would total it out.
I hope I dont have to pay for this. There is nothing out there and we are dead broke.
I wouldn’t want to hit dust at that speed.
Basically ifthat speed could be obtained we’d be potentially (because slowing down would be just as hard as speeding up and the craft may have been damaged but not destroyed or have had a malfunction in flight) turning out probe into a cosmic event for whatever starsystem was unlucky enough to have it aimed at them.
I hear you - way back when, I hit a pheasant while going 84 mph - fortunate it hit the bumper and that it was an old style car ('61 Chevy Bel Air) where the bumpers really were...bumpers. Felt like I had hit a deer from the jolt, left feathers in a cloud that obscured the road behind me and it was a job to get all the bits and pieces from around the headlight as they had squirted inside the fender area to some tough to reach places....not enough left for the stew-pot.....
I wouldn’t want to hit a grain of sand at that speed..........................