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Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:07:53 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

wrote:

And, if we could really come up with a Bussard ramjet, and
accellerate at 1G all the way to the nearest star - well,
accellerate half-way, then decelerate, I read once that it'd
be a surprisingly short number of years' ship time, because
of that Einsteinian time dilation stuff.

Cheers!
Rich

Can you imagine bumping into a small rock at that speed.

Or rich? ;-)

Gee, Michael, you have such an endearing quality.

NOT!

Feh. You keep whining about how old you are, do you have any
plans to start acting it?

Thanks,
Rich