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Article #8345Re: Gravity Drive
From: Michael Belanger
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:00
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Perhaps we should pursue the method of transport in Dune. They fold space in there world. Travelling without moving. Like cosmic origami. Pretty cool. Yousuf Khan <ykhan@achilles.net> wrote in article <5i6k65$pfu$4@news1.sympatico.ca>... > On Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:40:22 -0500, Chris Wagner > <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote: > > >> Actually, your ship doesn't even have to move at all! It can stay perfectly > >> still and space itself will move around it, instead. > > >Yeah. That's why this is a warp drive. But reletivly speaking, you > >*are* > >moving. Hence you can never overtake that which you are using as > >propulsion. > > In this case you can. The usual frames of reference of action-reaction > don't apply when you are using the fabric of space itself as the propulsion > medium. > > >> In fact, with a gravity drive, you have no need to worry about acceleration > >> crushing you to a pulp, because you won't be accelerating. This is called > >> an inertia-less drive, BTW. > > >Exactly the same for Warp Drive. No inertia. > > Warp drive, gravity drive, inertialess drive, all the same thing. > > Yousuf Khan > -- > Yousuf J. Khan > ykhan@achilles.net > Ottawa, Ont, Canada > Nation's capital > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc19f,170da24f95ceef31 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc19f,public X-Google-Thread: 10be1b,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10be1b,public X-Google-Thread: 101d03,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101d03,public X-Google-Thread: 107568,170da24f95ceef31 X-Google-Attributes: gid107568,public X-Google-Thread: 10dd53,c2d61fdc569fd85e X-Google-Attributes: gid10dd53,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,3f2794d78434d857 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 10e8c9,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e8c9,public X-Google-Thread: 107319,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107319,public From: "Michael Belanger" <michaelb@info2000.net> Subject: Re: Gravity Drive Date: 1997/04/06 Message-ID: <01bc42ab$92a292a0$0ae390cc@galaxy.info2000.net> X-Deja-AN: 231108002 References: <5d2m8a$ncn@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <332BD9F9.5E4C@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5gi4ta$7mg1@chinook.generation.net> <332CD474.A96@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <332DAC44.6318@hotmail.com> <5gnvii$t00$4@news1.sympatico.ca> <332F8EA9.336F@flash.net> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970319 <5gsv2t$3qv@news.inforamp.net> <33322DC8.5FD1@eos.ncsu.edu> <5gvhqu$po$3@news1.sympatico.ca> <3334F3CD.312B@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5h412t$br4$6@news1.sympatico.ca> <333F2801.1221@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5hplrk$578$3@news1.sympatico.ca> <3341E336.2AE3@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5i6k65$pfu$4@news1.sympatico.ca> Organization: Colorado Internet Cooperative Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.startrek.tech,alt.startrek,alt.startrek.borg,aus.sf.star-trek,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9