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>imagine how many more interesting things they could do with it than fly to nowhere?

Like what?




Like power an entire planet for centuries, or use it as the energy budget for a megastructure project like a Dyson swarm.

We're talking about a truly incomprehensible amount of energy, not just to carry the rocket and its own fuel, but the tens of thousands of kg of water and food for even a modest compliment of people.

18 years is a LONG time after all.




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