September 5th, 2003, 01:03 AM
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Re: The REAL milky way galaxy map - sol @ centre ;)
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Originally posted by Cirvol:
... hell, 5 or 10 LY can be done in 10 or 20 years with a half decent ion drive - going at .5 c speed is NOT that difficult for todays (or reasonably near term future) tech
so, its kinda exciting - i figure as soon as we get a decent fusion system going, we'll be off to the stars ... unmanned probes first of course... but with fusion engines, heck, there a LOT of stars within grasp
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I still stand by my assertion : http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=008169
Traveling at such speed would require a nice-looking, aerodynamic designs. More like WhiteStars than EA destroyers 
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