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Comment by jfengel

20 days ago

Landing from relativistic speed would be a massive engineering problem, since you won't have a laser de-celerator on the other end. And landing on a planet would seem to require a rocket, which cannot be lightweight.

Not necessarily insoluble, but a massive unsolved problem.

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