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> unless the acceleration is really low or the fuel ratio is huge

You’d need kilotons of nuclear fuel and a 10^3 fuel ratio. But that’s plausible.

The economically-plausible answer is antimatter, where the ratio stays in the single digits and starts permitting deceleration. But I wouldn’t call that technologically plausible at this time.




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