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Let's take as our example a rocket trip from Earth to Saturn. How long will it take to make the flight?
You could go the easy route, and look up how long it took for the Voyager 1 space probe to fly from Earth to Saturn, and just assume that you space ship flies about as fast as the Voyager probes did. But when you do look it up, you balk -- it took nearly ''three years'' for Voyager 1 to make this trip! You can't have your intrepid [[Eager Young Space Cadet|space cadets]] waiting around for three years just to get to Saturn, they've got important space adventures to have, space wars to fight, and space women to woo. You want them to get to Saturn a lot quicker. So, you give them a space ship that never runs out of fuel -- or uses fuel that's so efficient that it won't run out even if it runs its engines continuously between Earth and Saturn.
So, with the ability to accelerate indefinitely, ''now'' how long will it take to get to Saturn?
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