I've never designed a vehicle, so I may comment may not carry any
weight, but if you design a ship with a Delta-Vee of 10 meters/sec
(i.e. 1G, as in no need for artificial gravity to the human
occupants) and spend half your trip accelerating 1G and the other
half decelerating at 1G, you can get from here to the galactic
center in a human lifetime AS FAR AS THE OCCUPANTS are concerned,
due to time dilation.
This gets increasingly difficult as you approach c as the ship effectively
gains mass, so the ship's acceleration diminishes...
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Eric Funk
"Knowledge Brings Fear" -- Motto of Mars University, Futurama
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