Timeline for How to effectively slow down a ship about to shoot through the Solar System at 0.6c?
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 6:57 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | @Mindwin Not at all. If you have more time (like decades) you can harvest sufficient fissile material from the asteroid belt. Its just not going to work twice in such a short timeframe. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 20:26 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @SerbanTanasa the question basic premises (that a ship traveling at 0.6c had to jettison its reactor/propulsion) means that such propulsion already exists in the fictional world. So denying the possibility of accelerating and deaccelerating at such speeds is basically denying the scenario. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 18:02 | history | edited | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 18:02 | comment | added | user3652621 | Nice answer. It seems our explorers may need reactionless drives or loads of cheap antimatter to make it. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 13:22 | history | answered | Angelo Fuchs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |