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Questions regarding travel on a cosmic scale, from one star to another.

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What is the largest naturally occurring body that could be hollowed and safely lived in?

Caves Any large body where you can survive on the surface to begin with can be used for caves, artificial or natural. This observation isn't off-topic because you ask about holding in atmospheric pr …
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Could the sun be used as a gravity assist outside the solar system (with current tech)?

I think I might have understood what this XKCD comic is trying to do. The diagram is proposing to use the Oberth effect at closest approach to the sun to escape the solar system! (image license: CC …
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Realistic space battle, how it could looke like? No hollywood version or videogames like

I would like to firstly echo the suggestion to read Project Rho. Throughout the entire site, there is a tremendous amount of hard science and it is all deeply entertaining. http://www.projectrho.com/ …
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