monodokimes

Snake whip!

@Skye That's fine if their predators don't use fire. And super fun if you use a flamethrower for pest control.

Of course we wouldn't need all that if we could build spaceships with any sort of fuel efficiency.

Rosetta's comet (forgotten the name, something 67P) wasn't a sungrazer. And it took a decade to get into position.

I skipped over the rendezvous part as I figured that wasn't all that relevant to the question, I just wanted to show that conventional methods of rocketry (chemical fuels) are simply not workable for interstellar travel.

Getting to aphelion would take an impossibly long time.

Oh hey the sungrazer question people are here!

If the AI is incapable of observing the outside world, it's impossible for it to learn even the most basic science. It wouldn't know our world existed, all it would know would be, at best, the hardware it's running on. But if you code it to be platform-independent, it won't even know that :)

CERN forbids use of time travel technology, lest we unseat their autocracy.

To be fair, Alagaësia (to use its properly spelled name) was created by a fourteen year old.