Since it's 20.5 light years away, it would take a little over 20,000 years to get there in a slow flat mach 1 zero gravity environment. A constantly increasing acceleration to midpoint would give the inhabitants of the spaceship the gravity of earth, gradually increasing to that of Gliese 581c. At midpoint, the inhabitants would experience a short period of weightlessness while the ship turns around before it begins to decelerate in reverse fashion.
To simplify the equasion, I'll allow a constant acceleration and deceleration at Gliese's gravitational rate (1.6 times that of Earth).
2007-04-27
00:36:09
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JLMadrigal
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Astronomy & Space