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The Skeptics Guide #866 - Feb 12 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Solar Electric Propulsion Is the Next Big Thing in the Solar System

This architecture is suitable for some things that conventional chemical rockets, or even solar electric propulsion is unsuitable for. I think it's going to be the ultimate expression of this type of technology using directed energy. We could use this to intercept interstellar objects passing through the solar system. That actually might be the fastest propulsion technology that could ever exist.

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