jonc211

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A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] jonc211@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ship gets lighter as more fuel is destroyed. Ship gets heavier as it gets closer to light speed.

At 90% of light speed, the ship’s mass would be around 2.3x its rest mass.

I haven’t looked at your calculations in detail, but you seem to be missing that important point!

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[–] jonc211@programming.dev 23 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Guessing they’re talking about Power-On Self Test rather than the HTTP verb. I’m assuming you were thinking of the latter given you mentioned a software engineer.