• Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Acceleration is a bitch. A manned flight would take longer as it would have to cap it’s thrust to 1-1.5G or risk long term effects. Not to mention having to cancel ALLL of that thrust starting at the halfway point.

    • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      Biology is frustrating. We’re built for everything except leaving the immediate area around the sea we crawled out of. Anything beyond that and our bones melt into cancer.