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500+ years, and it would likely need to be inert for most of that trip, space is big


Try 74 832 years actually.


I was being a little optimistic with theoretical designs that could happen within our lifetimes (nuclear pulse at 10% c gets ~500), but yes absolutely true that with current tech it's tens of thousands even with the rosiest of estimates

add in a bunch of complication for "oh wait, you need to stop too"




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