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A back-of-napkin calculation says this maneuver can also be used to send a probe to Proxima Centauri in ... 128 days? Why are we not doing that?

Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not but Promixa is 4+ light years away.

So unless we have FTL tech, this is impossible.

Nope, just bad at both math and basic reasoning yesterday.