method to get to other stars

[goldfang35]

Since kerbol is such a small star you could in theory be able to get very close to it since all stars have quite a huge mass even though kerbol is a generally small star it still has a huge mass. The way you could get to other stars would be if you can coat your rocket in a heat resistant material you could get very close to kerbal. If you can do this right you can adjust your orbit to slingshot out of the kerbol system by getting really close to kerbol you can pick up a lot of speed. This method is impractical with our solar system since the sun is too hot and too big however since kerbol is 113 times smaller than the sun and a very dim star it is possible to do this you could get to a very high speed and since space has no friction there is nothing to slow you down the only thing to slow you down would be kerbols gravitational pull into which can be countered by burning away from the sun and using the gravitational pull of moho. you could also get a boost from jool to get to an even higher speed. This would be a long and complicated way to get to the stars but a very practical way you could get to a significant fraction of the speed of light and does not use hyper drives and other unproven wormhole method imagining that kerbol is pretty close to the centre of the galaxy stars would be 1-2 light years away from each other making your journey to the stars a quick and easy journey.

[Arbolus]

That could get you maybe to 0.1% of the speed of light if you're using liquid fuel rockets. Gravity assists are useful but not as effective as you seem to think they are - Voyager 1 slingshotted around Jupiter and Saturn and it's still taken nearly 30 years just to get to the edge of the Solar System.

So yes, you could wait a hundred years for everything to be aligned in the right way, and then spend another thousand years on the journey, but by the time you got there you'd find you'd been overtaken by a faster means of propulsion that wasn't invented when you set off.

[KasperVld]

Getting to other stars is a rather irrelevant topic when there are no other stars to visit and no plans to implement them exist either. Thread locked.