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Visual Studio is by far the best editor IMO. But beware that an advanced IDE will hide a lot of details from you, so if one day you...

I've used Visual Studio for decades, its the best of the big mainstream dev tools, much better than the massive 8Gb Android Studio. In...

There are options for extending Chess. My own Chess engine (like my checkers program) can play with a variable size board. Chess on a...

If you are going old school Basic, try the famous "Illustrating Basic" by Donald Alcock: https://archive.org/details/ibaspl But...

Thanks! Back then it was mostly actually written on an 8k PET too, I didn't have other computers. Lots of hand written code on squared...

This is a long running debate. If you play chess, checkers, connect4, etc as entertainment, either with human or computer opponent, then...

I was thinking of a solar thermal rocket, which can deliver a large acceleration when close to the sun, but fermi is also interesting...

I assume you mean the scenario, which you described in the OP. The peak speed is reached in the middle between Earth and Alpha...

Alternative to @Sagittarius A-Star's rapidity method, you can use ##v/c=\frac{at/c}{\sqrt{1+a^2t^2/c^2}}##. Using years and light years...

Thanks, I was not very clear, yes I meant the threads first post, rather than my last one. .94 c is quite a speed, I think there are...

I wonder what would be the peak speed in this scenario, as a % of light speed?

For those interested in the practical side of interstellar travel, the Universe Today have a 5 part series covering the history of...

Yes, I suppose its more than a perception, its how the traveller experiences time. If we also place earth in the gravitational well of...

Yes, I understand it is only percieved time elapsed, the traveller cannot actually travel faster than light.

In the original question I made a point if returning the traveller to the original frame of reference, earth. Obviously i bow to your...