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		georgefrowny 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Ear... > 20-50 years of engineering can get us there. I want to believe, but I think it'll be a lot more than that. The rocket equation is a stone cold bitch in this case. Sustaining the thrust that accelerates a probe at 1g is very different to sustaining the thrust to move the probe and all the fuel. And it's much worse if you want to stop and not just fly past into deep space.

fooker 9 days ago [–]

> The rocket equation is a stone cold bitch in this case.

It might not be. Plenty of hydrogen around everywhere. We just need tech to use it.

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