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#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do We Get Out of the Solar System?
Getting out of the solar system is going to be a hard one. It's just an energy... I mean, you can do it slowly whenever you want. A few lifetimes requires huge amounts of energy to accelerate. And then as soon as you get halfway there, you need to expend an equal amount of energy to decelerate or you'll just go shooting by. There's ideas like Yuri Milner, I think, is still funding the idea to use laser propulsion to send something to another star system,. But it'll have no way to slow down as far as I know.
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