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Why can you not invent spaceship that travels near the speed of light?
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∙ 10y ago
There's no technical reason that you can't, but it's so impractical that
there's no reason to go after it. Here are a few considerations:
-- The time required to reach near-light-speed ... with acceleration that's
low enough that it wouldn't kill life aboard or smash machinery aboard ...
would exceed a human lifetime.
-- The same goes for the process of slowing down to landing-speed or
orbiting-speed, when the ship arrives at its destination.
-- The fuel required to power engines, at least chemical ones, to accelerate
a spacecraft to near-light-speed, would need tanks the size of mountains ...
which themselves would have to be accelerated to the same speed.
-- The cost would be, well, larger than the spacecraft, and completely
out of the question for any possible funding organization.
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