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|    Re: Interstellar seed ship propulsion sy    |
|    17 May 17 09:02:41    |
      From: sungjunnoh0802@gmail.com              On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 7:16:37 AM UTC-4, els.d...@gmail.com wrote:       > You can use two propulsion systems on the ship: a laser sail to get you up       to speed and a fusion drive to decelerate at the objective. It cuts your fuel       requirements in half, for the cost of adding a laser sail.              I am designing a interstellar ship too, and I recommend adding a bussard       ramscoop/magnetic sail to slow down from .8c to .2c-ish. And maybe a       electromagnetic tether to slow down using the solar magnetic field.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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