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The first astronaut to travel to stars might use what to get up to light speed instead of engines?
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∙ 13y ago
Anything that pushes a spaceship would probably be called an "engine". An astronaut could never "get up to light speed". Light speed could be approached in theory, but not reached.
Velda Hauck
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∙ 10y agoAs far as we know, no astronauts have ever set out on a trip to any star. We can be sure that if any ever did, they're still on the way.
It's much more likely that any astronauts who ever set out to travel to a distant star used their imaginations instead of an engine. That's the great thing about being human.
The farthest humans have been from earth is to the Moon. The nearest star is about 390 times farther away than the moon is, and the second nearest one is 271,000 times farther away than the nearest one is.
Anything that provides thrust to get you from one place to another can be considered an engine.
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∙ 6y agoAnything that could be used to speed the astronaut up could be called an "engine".Present technology doesn't allow taking astronauts to even nearby star systems (other than our own Solar System, of course) within any reasonable time (40,000 years, for example, to get to Toliman, would NOT be reasonable); so some new technologies would have to be invented first.
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