Re: What is the error in my calculation?

Ronald RNR wrote:
I want to make a faster then light spacecraft so i can go vistit
those new planets.

I have learned about g = 9.81 m/s^2.

So to reach light speed, with a comfortable chair, with
my own weight, I need to acellerate 300,000,000 / 9.81 = 30581039.76 seconds.
This is 8494 hours, and that is 352 days, say 1 year if I take it easy.

And 1 g is not that much, does not take a string engine.


Oh, I forgot to tell you--when you get going fast like that, every micro
meteoroid and grain of dust will hit your ship like high speed cannon
balls... and you won't even see them coming! Nice suicide mission.

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