Depends how "near" light your ship is....
In spite of his calculations being plausible, I think Hawking has made another false assumption: that it is possible to travel to other extra-solar planets. It isn't.
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In spite of his calculations being plausible, I think Hawking has made another false assumption: that it is possible to travel to other extra-solar planets. It isn't.