[ExI] Use Fusion Drive To Get To Proxima Centauri

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> He3 is generated in route with the
> breakdown of tritium.

Given how long it will take before we have a usable fusion drive,
mining the Moon or other places in the solar system for He3 will
likely be practical well before the mission will be fueled.  No need
to worry about the limitations of tritium.

> Interstellar travel is a damn tough problem.

Ironically, it's easier now than when we will actually have the technology.

That is because, not having the technology, solutions that handwave
the fine engineering details of specific implementations are accepted
- whereas once fusion drives actually exist, acceptable solutions will
require those fine engineering details.  It's like making a thesis
about how to get to orbit today, as opposed to what would have been
accepted by degree-granting institutions in 1925 - let alone 1825.