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There are theoretical designs using antimatter (pion rockets, or beam core engines) that could reach 0.4c - 0.7c, which puts Alpha Centauri at decades away, not millennia.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2281 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001904/downloads/20...



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