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Old 06-01-2016, 09:35 AM   #23
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: Good ways to limit space travel?

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
You probably could, but you wouldn't. Instead, you'd do the acceleration and deceleration at 1g, and spend the time in the middle drifting.
Back of the envelope calculations say "no" but it's a close thing. Accelerating at half speed adds 15 days to the trip and accelerating at full speed and drifting adds 16.6.

I'd probably find 51 days at half G more comfortable than 17G days of 0G. I believe the plumbing would still work then and it absolutely would not work at 0G.
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