The closer you get to lightspeed, the slower you accelerate (from an outside perspective). It's actually close to lightspeed for most of the time.

Smarter people than me on the internet calculate that at constant 1g you only need 2.5 years to get very close to speed of light. So I guess you accelerate fast enough and reach 'almost speed of light' very early in your travel and total time is almost as if you traveled at speed of light the whole time.

I just used the calc, it's closer to 152 years. Which I assume means acceleration at 1g for about a year to reach .999c, and deceleration for the same time.

I just confirmed with dV= a*t, a year of 1g(9.8m/s/s) gets you just over the speed of light. I think it's more complicated than that, If I remember right relativistic speeds require more and more energy to accelerate so you can't ever "reach" light speed.

Constant acceleration at 9.8m/s^2 in a given direction will bring you close to the speed of light eventually, but yeah, I'm also not super sure how this math checks out

9.974 years

It's only 9 years for you!

Just imagine sitting on a spaceship for 151 years to find out they got there first because in 151 years space travel tech has improved so much they can travel there in 35 years.

It's not just blanket entire body experience that force including internal organs.. So i guess sleeping with tgat would be more than just uncomfortable

It would only save you a few months

I say have a spinny ship that does that with the shape of the ring. Some kind of parabolic bullshit I'm sure there's a way to get it to math without having to have a 1g ring and a 3g ring but that works too

Great Scott!

So 340 PWh per person. A couple of guys with a static bike and a dynamo and that's it😜

Note: the Earth receives 170 PWh of energy from the Sun in a year.

Oh and also thats just the pure energy for acceleration/deceleration, not life support, steering, thrust ineffeciencies, take off, landing etc... 😅

No, the people in the ship will experience less time then 152 years. Relativity tells us the faster an observer is moving, the slower it moves through time.

Its actually easier to launch stuff out of the solar system than to slow stuff down enough to fall into the sun

shhhhhh they don't understand Hohmann Transfers, we can send them there regardless.

Hear me out. What if we get that billionaire submarine company to build 2 big rockets, each one full of billionaire. We'd say one is going to do an exclusive tour near the sun, and the other is going to that fancy new planet. No one can go on both, because whatever, just bs that they leave at the same time. And limited seats to the highest bidder.

I mean the thing doesn't even need to work. Just take their money and ship them to their doom, then build public houses with their money and put on space YouTube to see them squirm.

Recommend them to compute a sol gravity assist trajectory using chatgpt

Guillotines are even closer than the sun.

Everyone likes gold. This would be a good movie!

They'll pull themselves up by their bootstraps on the way there!

You should read Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy. One planet decides to ship off all their "useless" people on a colony ship pretending they're saving them from the apocalypse and everyone else is coming soon.

Beautiful, Bernie is much preferred, thank you!

Yeah this one should take over