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To: Celtic Conservative

Suborbital is right. Forget interstellar. Too far to go, way to far. Light years away. Even if you could find a propulsion system before you got any appreciable distance to another star system everything and everybody you left on Earth will be long gone.


7 posted on 03/20/2019 12:14:30 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: jmacusa

Also think what even a 1 gram rock would do to the hull of a ship when traveling at 0.10c. Even if you could detect the object the inertia of the ship would rip it apart during any evasive maneuver


8 posted on 03/20/2019 12:23:43 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: jmacusa
and everybody you left on Earth will be long gone...

Actually, if you run the numbers (there are web calculators for such things), a trip to Alpha Centauri and back would take you 7 years. "Everybody you left on Earth" would have aged only about 15 years.

The presumption, and yes, I know it's a big one, it requires you to travel with constant-acceleration engine(s) for significant times to speed-up, slow-down for an AC "visit", speed-up for return, and slow-down for re-entry. Also, there is a presumption of a very short AC visit... add more time for the desired length of stay.

12 posted on 03/20/2019 1:32:58 AM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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