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g accel (approx)= 10m/s/s; c= 300,000,000m/s. It would take 30,000,000 seconds to reach the speed of light, or about 347 days.
Pluto ranges from 4,400,000,000,000m to 7,300,000,000,000m from us, so lets say 6,000billion meters avg., so we would have 3,000 billion meters in which to accelerate before we had to begin to shut down. Or 30 million seconds, whichever comes first.
It's been way too long since I did algebra and calculus, but we need now to figure out how long it would take to reach 3,000 billion meters at a constant acceleration of 10m/s/s. If it is less than 30 million seconds you have achieved warp speed.
I think.
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