Venus and Jupiter this evening

[VancouverIslander]

If you can find a way to accelerate at around 1g or even 1m/s^2 for the whole trip, it becomes much much shorter (days rather than months or years) with a much higher maximum velocity. Only one day of around 1/10 of a G acceleration gets you close to 200,000 mph. Unfortunately, finding a fuel and engine system to allow us to do this in space is difficult. If it could be managed, you could make it to Jupiter accelerating half way and decelerating the other half in about 6 days. If you just wanted to make it there really fast and crash into it with tremendous velocity, about 4 days. Not sure what kind of tea they serve there, however.

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