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There is an idea called the bussard warp drive, which accelerates and uses the time dilation factor to get a crew very far in a limited time.
Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008
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Another deisgn is a bussard ram scoop, which is a space craft that uses a very strong magentic field that extends for miles to collect the trace ammounts of interstellar hydrogen that exist between stars.
nessus Diary Entry nessus 2004
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From the ion engines that are already working to explore the Solar System to the prototype solar sails to futuristic technologies like magnetic sails, and bussard ramjets.
Universe Today 2008
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