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To: ThomasMore

“The problem is slowing down.”

Good point. By my rough math you would be travelling at about 50 million miles an hour by the time you reach Alpha Centauri 100 years from now.

You’d barely have time to take a picture out the window.


32 posted on 07/28/2015 11:57:28 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Inertia dampening field like in Star Trek.

Plays heck on the crew if it fails though.


44 posted on 07/28/2015 1:03:58 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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