12-13-2017, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Speaking of interstellar probes:
The founder of “Project Vagabond” http://twitter.com/VagabondArmada posted here (see: http://twitter.com/_TheGeoff/status/933480336025145345 ) about an interesting multi-star mission; as he described it (I have also copied it below):
Project Vagabond @VagabondArmada Nov 21 More
Replying to @EricMamajek
A probe in an slightly elliptical Galactic orbit, but traveling in the counter-revolving direction would be best case - going by stars at an average of about 460 km/sec - it could rack up an enormous number of stellar flybys. Easy for a machine.
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