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If we ever want to reach out across these distances, we need to learn how to go fast.
Using our current knowledge of physics and engineering, we could build nuclear locomotives to take humans to all the world's in our solar system.
But a Starship powered with a nuclear heart aimed for even our closest star, Proxima Centauri , would have to harbor hundreds of generations of people, all living their entire lives aboard before reaching its destination 4 1/4 light years away.
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