My standard model of “Thing going really fast” has been some nuclear powered craft that just shoots out into the abyss, but after a bit of googling apparently our fastest craft is/will be Juno, which is staying within the solar system. This will apparently go 250,000km/hr or 0.000232c partially based on Jupiter’s gravity.
It is interesting to think about just “living fast”, where our lives are still only ~80 years, but the time elapsed on earth is on the order of many multiples of that. We would exist in a way that we orbit the earth at a much larger fraction of light speed, while still allowing us to interact with the earth’s resources on normal time scales. Imagine taking a vacation back to earth for a year, but popping back to the space station where it has only been a few hours.
Maybe I’ll write a novel on that or find one already written, there seems to be a lot of depth in exploring that.
My standard model of “Thing going really fast” has been some nuclear powered craft that just shoots out into the abyss, but after a bit of googling apparently our fastest craft is/will be Juno, which is staying within the solar system. This will apparently go 250,000km/hr or 0.000232c partially based on Jupiter’s gravity.
It is interesting to think about just “living fast”, where our lives are still only ~80 years, but the time elapsed on earth is on the order of many multiples of that. We would exist in a way that we orbit the earth at a much larger fraction of light speed, while still allowing us to interact with the earth’s resources on normal time scales. Imagine taking a vacation back to earth for a year, but popping back to the space station where it has only been a few hours.
Maybe I’ll write a novel on that or find one already written, there seems to be a lot of depth in exploring that.
[0] https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/earth-flyby/story/how-fast-...