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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by actionfromafar on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:39PM (#39268742)
We have one of those (stars)!

Just need to build a parabolic reflector on one side of it and point it towards the opposite direction where we want to go. When the reflector shoots to far from the same, tilt the reflectors, drop down closer to the Sun by gravity, tilt them back, do it again.

We could be going places in a few billion years!

Re:Relativistic Spaceship by eru on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:54PM (#39269368)
Yes. And that's not the only way to make this work.

Btw, the sun is also an extremely inefficient engine. With a bit of extra engineering we could probably scoop up hydrogen from the sun, and 'burn' it much more efficiently.