Reply to post: Re: 1400 light years

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Re: 1400 light years

"If you could do it at a continuous 1 to 2G acceleration, then it'd subjectively be a relatively short trip."

If, as you say, you could develop the propulsion the occupants might well experience a short trip but for the ones here waiting for the information it would still be 2800 years.

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