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(...) Nope. You're misapplying inertia. The whole ship, including contents, has inertia. If it is moving, say, 1.25 Km/s (pretty darn quick) in arbitrary direction A, it (and all it's contents will continue to move in direction A, and which (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- (...) Now I'm going to start this off with the fact I'm no physicist. I'm not an expert. And everything I'm about to say is relayed from endless conversations I've had with my father about (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) You're forgetting four things. First, there's no atmosphere, and the main reason for making long banking curves like that is because you can't make abrupt vector changes in an atmosphere. That's not a concern in a near vacuum. Second, no, you (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I have a way you could avoid the whole problem all together using real physics. I think I read this somewhere before in doing my own research on space travel. It involved firing an ionizing beam like microwaves or something in front of the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ah, yes. Although I think I'd like to try the visor the other way around... I'm not sure about that gap. Does it work the other way? Yeah, he's got great stuff alright. His retro future ship is just so beautiful... I just keep coming back to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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