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Wow! Thanks for the interesting charts of our drone exploratory spacecraft! That's neato!

Yeah, I don't think we can attain the speeds necessary for interstellar flight while we're still within our solar system.

It takes quite a while to get going that fast, two years to get to 0.071 c, and after jettisoning that stage, another 1.8 years to get to 0.12 c. We can't accelerate fast because it would crush the passengers.

I was just using 1 AU to illustrate how fast the interstellar speeds will be.

18 posted on 01/22/2012 1:06:24 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)

Its all really cool stuff and by rights we should be a lot further along than we are. We should be in the Icarus testing phase by now at the least.

19 posted on 01/22/2012 1:12:38 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)