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Matriarch: "I'm quite happy to discuss religion with you, gentlemen, but I have to ask: Did you have to come and literally knock on my door to meet me?"
"We consider it polite. We do so at humans' doors on a daily basis, too."
"That may be, but you're a pre-spaceflight species and my door is still in orbit around Jupiter ... !!"
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If a spaceship accelerates at the same rate as it would in a free-fall under Earth's gravity (Otherwise known as "1G acceleration"), it can reach Jupiter from Earth in just under 6 days. It would need to flip in the middle of the travel, to start decelerating and enter the planet's orbit.
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Ah yes, proselytizing to humanity... that'll end well.
Matriarch: "I'm quite happy to discuss religion with you, gentlemen, but I have to ask: Did you have to come and literally knock on my door to meet me?"
"We consider it polite. We do so at humans' doors on a daily basis, too."
"That may be, but you're a pre-spaceflight species and my door is still in orbit around Jupiter ... !!"