sigurdV Posted February 16, 2012 Report Posted February 16, 2012 Yes it would stop working but if it was used to travel around inside the solar system it could be refueled, such a system could be used to move a toriodal type space craft around the solar system or slowly move a colony type craft around as it visits various bodies to harvest resources for it's own use. If you wanted to use it for interstellar flight it would have to be a long term generational ship but no one says you would have to use all your propellant to accelerate, hold some back to decelerate at your destination. We are not talking about a large fraction of c here or a gigantic amount of propellant. The words we use can limit our thinking...I stopped using the term "Space Ship" i think "Space City" instead :) Quote
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