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Re:Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of... by jack9 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:38AM (#13227667)
> EM has neither to match the magnitude of the claims until they can push something across the solar system and back

That is hyperbolic. Pushing something around in orbit is sufficient to move forward (pardon the pun).

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Re:Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of... by daveguy on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:37AM (#13228932)
Good point, but it would need to accelerate and decelerate in orbit enough to confirm that mass loss isn't driving it.
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