Dr. Young Bae — “P(hotonic) L(aser) T(hruster) powered spacecraft could transit the 100 million km to Mars in less than a week.”
And thus we see the advent of the “torch ship”, the science fiction invention of half a century ago, in which the courier ship is under constant acceleration, with a turnaround at midpoint to begin the deceleration phase.
With such ships, no destination in the Solar System is more than a few weeks away.
As for interstellar, well, you’ll still have to pack along your grandchildren, so they can make landfall.
In the meantime, DC, be sure to include a connection bay for the spider robots. They’ll be the ones doing the pick-and-shovel work out in the asteroids.
Good morning, Bob.
I went for a run this morning, in a mizzly northwestern drizzle. Nothing major hurts, so far, but I was so slow I had trouble getting away from a fat dachshund!