Submitted by Wrooof t3_zyvfq7 in WritingPrompts
akeean t1_j2c17cs wrote
Reply to comment by Far_Assistant_4315 in [WP] Faster than light travel has been proven impossible, that's why humans are so surprised when aliens turn up. Not as surprised as the aliens on the generational ship who say the planet was void of life when they set off, following a missile they had sent to wipe out the dinosaurs. by Wrooof
The missle accelerated faster to a fraction of c while the generational ship ramped it's speed up (and then down) slowly in comparison, since it was humungus in size?
That wouldn't make much of a difference over 65m years, since even at 1g acceleration you get to 10% of c in a few decades.
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