[ExI] Use Fusion Drive To Get To Proxima Centauri

[BillK]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 at 21:32, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> A system like this is plausible, but getting there in 57 years strains my imagination.  I will look over the thesis, see if I see anything obvious.  Dropping into Prox' orbit after a few hundred years is more believable than getting into orbit of one of its planets.
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> spike
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I asked Perplexity to review the thesis.
Perplexity pointed out the speculative nature of the thesis.
i.e. Fusion Drive has not been invented yet, D-He3 fuel is rare on Earth
and the problems of long-duration missions.
However, the conclusion was that the thesis demonstrates that, with
optimistic but not implausible advances in fusion technology, a
large-scale interstellar mission to Proxima b could be feasible within
a human lifetime.
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So, "speculative but not implausible" - Sounds good to me!

BillK