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NASA Selects a Wild Plan to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri With Thousands of Tiny Probes (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Acceleration is a bitch. A manned flight would take longer as it would have to cap it's thrust to 1-1.5G or risk long term effects. Not to mention having to cancel ALLL of that thrust starting at the halfway point.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Biology is frustrating. We're built for everything except leaving the immediate area around the sea we crawled out of. Anything beyond that and our bones melt into cancer.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago

If you could maintain 1g of acceleration you would reach light speed in about a year.