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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Our velocity has not increased dramatically over the previous 25 years, much less than the proceeding 25 years, due to diminishing returns on investment (11 km/s for Apollo 10 versus 16.2 km/s for New Horizons). Of course, the Parker Solar probe will go much faster than anything else we have created, but it will be cheating, it is just using a particular aspect of its extreme orbit to travel its velocity.
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Using the immediate now to counter concerns based on TL progression above TL 9 or 10 over a period of 270 to 1010 years (your numbers) is really kind of lacking in any sort of relevance.