it's probably going to take humans (and/or their descendants) less time to conquer the galaxy than it took them to conquer the earth
-
-
Power consumption is minimized with steady acceleration / deceleration, and it's much more expensive to go fast if you need your power supply onboard. Unless we find it's possible to make efficient fusion plants small enough to fit inside a ship, those power limits are important.
-
(But I'd think
@anderssandberg covers all of the issues with interstellar colonization timelines in the book he's writing.) - 3 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Avoiding extreme inertial forces I guess Personally I’d say that given we only understood the speed-of-light barrier about a century ago, I wouldn’t overprivilege our current understanding of physics when making multi-millennial predictions
-
at 1g it takes under a year to accelerate to half light speed. hard to see how new physics would make things impossible that seem possible under general relativity. i can see new physics giving us more loopholes to exploit though
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.