> It sticks someplace in my memory, that not so much the speed is an issue,
> but rather the acceleration needed to get to much higher fractions of c. In
> that sense, freeing oneself from a feeble human body solves both that
> problem and that of time
It is not our bodies that makes acceleration hard, it is energy: to
sustain a 1 G acceleration for a long time you need a tremendous
energy output.
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