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schiffern on Nov 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Highly relativistic spaceflight would be fatal for...

>It would take like 34 days at 10g acceleration to get to C.

So why not take 340 days at 1g?

There are many problems with high relativistic travel. This is not one of them.

salimmadjd on Nov 5, 2012 [–]

>So why not take 340 days at 1g?

Sure! My reasoning was why add 2 years just to accelerate and decelerate. And as I said, "once we are advanced enough to figure out how to propel anything that fast or able to pack the needed energy" there were other challenges to overcome.

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