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A comment on Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using Sun for Oberth maneuver.

Re:Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using ... by HappySweeney on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:16PM (#38603241)
A back-of-napkin calculation says this maneuver can also be used to send a probe to Proxima Centauri in ... 128 days? Why are we not doing that?
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Re:Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using ... by LASR on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:25PM (#38603380)
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not but Promixa is 4+ light years away.

So unless we have FTL tech, this is impossible.

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Re:Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using ... by HappySweeney on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:46AM (#38612783)
Nope, just bad at both math and basic reasoning yesterday.
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