• Question: what is the fastest humans can travel in space

    Asked by 9joke to Ash on 28 Jun 2012.
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      Ashley Cadby answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      I’m guessing that in the future we could go 0.2 times the speed of light. What stops us is that to go faster takes increasingly more energy because of relativity. A human body could cope with going very fast as long as the acceleration was relativity slow.

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