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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by antiviral on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:30PM (#13710871)
Just as interesting is a recent news story about a plan to build an interstellar space ship, propelled by giant solar sails to travel about .2c (20% of the speed of light).

In other words, we could get to the Trappist-1 star system in about 145 years.. practically in the blink of an eye.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/how-an-interstellar-stars...

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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by sixdimensional on Thursday February 23, 2017 @12:19AM (#13711828)
Nuclear pulse propolsion... Project Orion... if only we could figure out the darn problem with the fallout and treaties/bans.
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by andygates on Thursday February 23, 2017 @06:05AM (#13712993)
Tsiolkovsky is unforgiving. You'd need an amazing amount of fuel.
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