Re: Quick question about a STL trip - and another...

Dr J R Stockton <jrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Otherwise, note that any such ship must have a perfect frontal
protection against impacts with particles from electrons to grit.
Therefore, there is no absolute need to minimise the cross-section. Put
the normally-inhabited parts in pods in the ends of arms, and adjust the
arms in the manner of a variable-sweepback wing to keep the apparent
gravity more-or-less perpendicular to the floors and parallel with the
walls.

I don't really understand this reasoning. The system must be perfect, so
it's ok to make its job arbitrarily difficult? Seems to me that just
because the system is perfect for some cross section X, it doesn't
necessarily follow that it will also be perfect for some cross section Y >
X.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon
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