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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by wongarsu on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:15PM (#39269072)
100 atoms per cubic meter is on the lower end of typical densities in the interstellar medium. It can get many orders of magnitude denser than that.

Outside galaxies you have better chances of surviving high speeds. The intergalactic medium is only 1-10 particles per cubic meter in the web of gas we call the warm–hot intergalactic medium, and possibly less outside of that.

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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by micw on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:51AM (#39271232)
So would probably better to get out of the galaxy disc, travel -fast- to the other end and dive back into rather that go straight through the galaxy?
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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by wordpad25 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:41AM (#39271464)
Except we can't get to edge of the galaxy quickly.

I guess Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy building space highways destroying everything in the way could be more than a gag after all.

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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by ben_w on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:16AM (#39273423)
Go up and over, that's only a few hundred light years. To the edge of the disk is 30,000.
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