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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Then take the solar system with us. Strap a solar thruster to the sun, and off EVERYTHING goes. It's a byproduct of figuring out starlifting, and that buys us all the time in the universe, at least till we run out of Hydrogen and Helium to shove into the sun as fuel, but there's literally entire solar systems worth of that stuff hanging around in deep space. Like 72 solar masses per cubic light year of "empty" space.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Strap a solar thruster to the sun

    So like if you visualize how the sun/planets actually move around the milky way. It seems plausible to focus solar flares to alter our trajectory. We'd still be stuck in the whirlpool but we could change lanes.

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