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> Velocity in a gas is a distribution; raise temperature and increasing fraction exceeds escape velocity.

It's not going to be a significant fraction to matter, except of truly geological timeframes.

> "Realistic" for values including "let's build a mirror the size of a planet, in space, and keep it together for centuries".

Probably thousands of years. But not hundreds of thousands.




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