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Megastructures could enable interstellar travel, but face immense scale and heat challenges

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This blog post explores the theoretical use of megastructures to achieve interstellar travel speeds, aiming to surpass the limitations of conventional rockets. The author discusses various megastructure concepts, including light or laser arrays, mass drivers, proton beams, and giant slings, to accelerate and decelerate ships. A key challenge identified is managing heat dissipation, even with highly reflective solar sails, and the immense scale required for such structures. AI

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Megastructures could enable interstellar travel, but face immense scale and heat challenges

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Pasha Kamyshev ·

    Megastructures can speed up interstellar travel, but they have to be HUUUUGE

    <p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In this blog we consider using megastructures to speed up an interstellar ship and whether we can beat the estimates provided by rockets. </span><a href="https://pashanomics.substack.com/p/heat-dissipation-is-the-main-constraint" rel="noope…

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