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11 Jun 2012, 6:50 pm

abacacus wrote:

And how precisely do you intend to gather enough solar energy when you start moving farther away from the sun? There's quite a large flaw in your idea there.


Good point. Sunlight is good for orbital missions. We need nuclear powered ion drives for far out missions.

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