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<p><font size="2"><font color="#000000">The only possible technology in our possession capable of taking us to the stars is a Nuclear Pulse Drive, more commonly referred to as an Orion drive. </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font color="#000000">Back in the 1970's the British Interplanetary Society designed an unmanned probe that would be capable of traveling to a nearby star (Barnard's Star) within the lifetime of a person, & use current or upcoming technology (no unobtainium allowed <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />). The design they came up with would accelerate to 7.1% of light speed & traverse the distance of 5.9 light years in 50 years time.</font></font></p><p><font size="2">A detailed overview can be seen here. </font></p><p><font size="2">Using this design I believe it would be possible build a ship that could travel the distance to Tim's hypothetical planet 100 lys distance in well under 1000 years.</font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>