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Old 11-29-2017, 12:13 PM   #11
kreios
 
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Default Re: [Blog] n-Body Politics

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Originally Posted by https://nbodypolitics.gitlab.io/2017/11/29/interface_propulsion.html
Last time, we talked about FTL travel. However, to be able to FTL-travel, we still need to leave that pesky gravity well behind - and at roughly 9.4km/s, it’s a doozy. Just looking at today’s rockets, mass fractions and propellant densities make multi-stage rockets necessary. But how does it look like in the future?
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