Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by adrianN on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:17AM
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Going faster means expending more energy. At some point it won't make economic sense to go faster, even if technically you could. Freeze dried wombs don't care whether the journey takes a thousand years or five hundred, but the costs are very different.
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Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by AstralStorm on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:53AM
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At the same time, you could send information, compressed, enough to accurately reconstitute the travelers in spacetime. That would take some raw materials and a plenty of energy. However, the required devices might be much more resilient to acceleration and radiation than any possible human body.
Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by buboard on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:25AM
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It takes the same amount of energy to accelerate at any speed in space. The limit is our determination really, it is possible to visit our nearby star with ~200 hydrogen bombs
Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by majewsky on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:48AM
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No it doesn't. Your mass increases the faster you go, so that more and more energy needs to be expended to accelerate more. At 50% light speed, you're 15% heavier. At 90% light speed, you're 129% heavier. At 99% light speed, you're 608% heavier. Your mass goes to infinity as you approach the speed of light, which is why the speed of light is unattainable for objects that have mass.
Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by buboard on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:27AM
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right i assumed low-relativistic speeds. also i got the number of bombs wrong, it's 300.000 not 200. Here's the relevant pbs video
Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by adrianN on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:26AM
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And objects that have to carry their own fuel have problems even at much lower speeds.
Re:Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an imp...
by adrianN on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:30AM
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It doesn't take the same amount of energy to accelerate (and later brake) to 0.5c as it does to accelerate to 0.1c.