• Rimu@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    To go there in 30 days you’d need to disregard any orbital mechanics and just burn straight there. This would require an extraordinary amount of energy. Also surely making plasma from an electrical current must require, again, an extraordinary amount of energy. Also the faster you accelerate the more fuel you need to expend to DE-cellerate when you get there.

    I dunno man, seems like bullshit. I’m no rocket scientist, obvs. But at a gut-feel level, this seems way off.

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      1 month ago

      Ok. And? Even if they don’t have an appropriate power source yet, still cool to have built the engine.