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Re: Most likely candidate for future spaceship propulsion
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Stranded in space? Do you think it's going to stop? You coast to the next star, decelerate into orbit around that star or a planet. Think!
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Coast had better be a fancy way of saying sun generating solar energy from 20 light years away, or it won't work.
A star can only provide enough propulsion to get your mag field space craft may be two light years away, but after that the sun will be too distant to provide any real magnetic propulsion, and that's saying the mag field can be lengthened to a million miles in diameter.
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"We believed the world would not be the same, a few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent, I remembered a line from the Hindu scripture, the bagavagita, Vishnu was trying to convince the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, he takes on his multi-armed form and says, Now I have become death, destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, in one way or another"
-Robert J Oppenheimer, The atomic bomb
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