At 0.17c, the time dilation factor would amount to about 1.5%. The 25 year journey would be measured as taking just over 24 and a half years by those on the spaceship.
Proxima Centauri in 25 years
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Time Dilation Calculator: http://www.emc2-explained.info/Dilation-Calc/#.XQgT9i3MxsZ
Advantage: You shave off a bit of overtime on billable hours to your astronauts
Advantage: You shave off a bit of overtime on billable hours to your astronauts
Labor law attorneys are standing by to represent the poor astronauts who’s wages were not commensurate with their counterparts back on Earth.
What was that bit about "hanging all the lawyers"? Sounds vaguely familiar...
How far in the future was The Expanse?
It's never stated explicitly but my guess is that it's set in the mid twenty-third century. All the space technologies for exploring and exploiting the solar system are well established and there's been time to develop significant colonisation of the Moon, Mars, major asteroids and various planetary moons. It'll be interesting to see how quaint its depictions seem in just a few decades time (not that I'm likely to be around). AI and robots seem to be strangely absent with humans still doing the dirty grunt work directly. Telecoms interfaces don't seem much more advanced than now. There ought to be a lot more bodily implanted tech and much more advanced medicine in my opinion. Maybe only the very rich get to play with those.
That's not remotely canonical but it seems reasonable.
Ceres turned out to be wetter than what was thought. foam like hyperion might have come from something like Ceres. I seem to remember something along the lines of bubble like structure coming up to Ceres surface:
https://www.universetoday.com/14251...h-made-from-bubbling-salt-water-mud-and-rock/
I wonder if something like that can be spalled off, forming its own asteroid.
Spacecraft spheres from inflation--that might be useful for tank manufacture.
Perhaps a better target:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/27/gigantic-golden-asteroid-make-everyone-earth-billionaire-10075724/
A good Proxima starship might have volitiles from Ceres brought to Psyche to help harvest the metals there. Put all Earth's fissile material there--and have a huge pulse-Orion worldship take the slow-boat approach. AI built
https://www.universetoday.com/14251...h-made-from-bubbling-salt-water-mud-and-rock/
I wonder if something like that can be spalled off, forming its own asteroid.
Spacecraft spheres from inflation--that might be useful for tank manufacture.
Perhaps a better target:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/27/gigantic-golden-asteroid-make-everyone-earth-billionaire-10075724/
A good Proxima starship might have volitiles from Ceres brought to Psyche to help harvest the metals there. Put all Earth's fissile material there--and have a huge pulse-Orion worldship take the slow-boat approach. AI built
That's a very good question. I too want to know what we could build if there were no money limits.
To get an unlimited budget, you have to convince someone with deep pockets that such a budget is justifiable...
A simple question:
"What price would you put on another world like Earth?"
A simple question:
"What price would you put on another world like Earth?"
Yes but what kind of ships would we get with such a budget?
it's not going to happen but if we paid what we pay for defence on outer space settlement initiatives we'd have unlimited resources, energy and at least a million people living off world now.
With an unlimited budget, we should exploit resouces in the asteroid belt and build O'Neill-type space habitats rather than live in the dirt down another gravity well.
POTUS wants an American flag on Mars
