/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12703830
Induced hibernation is relatively easy to get working and could slow aging significantly during interstellar transit before awakening for capture using a plasma sail equipped NTP ship.
It would be faster with clever gravity assist and laser-particle beam accelerator stations
Hopefully micromachines get advanced enough to enhance our biological repair mechanisms and metabolism, we might even have forerunner-tier personal armor or irken paks
Seriously, with these, space travel would be routine

>>12688174
Mount big ass particle cannons like pic related on it with the area fortified against moonflight and ground assaults and these things could take out ships or asteroids within a few AU of Earth

>Not picking a DEC that can cut an asteroid in half at 1.5 AU away

How would you project a laser onto its objective lens that has a coaxial linear accelerator at its center? This thing is too useful both as an accelerator/decelerator array and a warship's main gun to not try to test it

>>12581982
http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/02/cold-laser-coupled-particle-beams.html
>Destroys your long-ass "warship" with a procsima cannon mounted on a small NTR powered rocket
Nothin' personnel, kid