Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System

Re:Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel T... by dragonwriter on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:17PM (#25423445)

> You cannot just slow down.

If you engineer to survive it, aero- and even litho-braking are alternatives where you can “just” slow down, without using onboard reaction mass.

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Re:Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel T... by Zanni on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:49PM (#25425603)

Thank you for introducing me to "lithobraking." What a wonderful euphemism for "crashing into the planet" (albeit a controlled crash, or, as you say, engineered for survival).

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Re:Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel T... by JPLeRouzic on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:57PM (#25432867)

Isn't what a plane is doing while landing on the airstrip?

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