Escape from Proxima b

Scientific American ^ | 4/16/18 | Abraham Loeb

[onedoug]

Cheesily cool.

[NativeSon]

Since the surface temperature of a warm planet is dictated by the flux of stellar irradiation,..

Wait, what? That sounds like heresy!

[wmileo]

If the world has been taken over by Leftists long before that happens, we are going nowhere. The world will be populated by Elois from the Book “ The Time Machines” even dumber than today’s leftists and not as good looking as Yvette Mimieux.

[Go_Raiders]

Idiot author. If you can’t go direct interstellar you can use nearby moons and planets as gravitational slingshots. Easy peasy.

[Jack Hammer]

Three little words: quantum slipstream drive.

[jmcenanly]

Why would they use chemical rockets for anything beyond getting off their planet’s surface and into orbit? Solar sails or nuclear engines could take over from there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Pinging X-Planets, also APoD.

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[PLMerite]

"Three little words: quantum slipstream drive."

That's easy for you to say...