Then the answer provided is wrong.The question only asked how to get to base the quickest. Maybe home base has a circular magnet that slows you down as you go through it. :) Or you can shoot the alien with the fifth projectile at lower energy. — Joseph
Sir2u Good job. This way you never negate any component of your velocity vector at any time. — Joseph
You're drifting through deep space traveling directly away from home base and mission command tells you to return immediately to defend an alien invasion — Joseph
But you're low on fuel and you need to get there as quickly as possible. Your propulsion method is to eject mass in single chunks at high speed.
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