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by dandanua 527 days ago
An intelligent alien race, living there, will be able to catch you, don't you watch sci-fi movies? The real question is from what you can get 4.13e+19 Jouls, required to reach Alpha Centauri in about 9 years of traveler's time.
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>An intelligent alien race, living there, will be able to catch you, don't you watch sci-fi movies?

The aliens on alpha Centauri are 12 ft tall blue hunter-gatherer humanoids. Not much of a help for your parking problems.

If you use fission, Uranium 235 has 83.14 TJ/kg. So you would need about 500 metric tons of it.