Thread: Chariots Of the Gods? Anyone read it?
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Old 04-23-2010, 06:52 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
... if you could get the ship to 0.99999 light speed, the travel time from the reference frame of the traveler would be just under a week-- but the ship's mass (from the POV of an outside observer) would have increased by more than 200 times. Good luck finding a reaction mass for that! ...
And travel at those speeds would be almost unimaginably risky. I've read somewhere that collision with a hydrogen atom at near-luminal speeds would rip a cannonball size hole in steel, and there are lots of interstellar hydrogen atoms! How do you affordably shield against something like that?
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