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Okay, thanks for the reply. Now, let me ask this. Say my spaceship left the Centauri system, needs to land on an asteroid that is in the ships direct path. After 40 years of traveling at the said speed (10% light year), HOW would the ship slow down in space in order to achieve the...

A a College Biology professor, the debate about a virus being living or non-living is ongoing. The reproduction is the complicated issue, because all viruses use the host's cell DNA/RNA replication machinery, ie, enzymes, nucleotides. Even the enzyme itself is incorporated into the virus'...

I am a writer of science fiction and I need to know some basics about space travel. I've read that it would take a ship 40 years to travel 1 parsec (3.26 light years) if the ship moved at 10% the speed of light. Does that sound right? Given that a futuristic ship could travel at this speed...