Re: Interstellar Transport Ship TASMANIA (late 21C setting)...


Ingo Siekmann wrote:
Johnny1a schrieb:
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(Plus the risk of legal troubles if the TASMANIA or one of her sister
ships does burn something out of the sky that they shouldn't have.
It's a low risk, but a real one, and the company lawyers know it.)

Not to mention that something that can accelerate with more than 8 gs
for months is weapon of mass destruction...

Bye
Ingo

That's true, but TASMANIA (and other ships in my future setting)
_can't_ do that.

Conservation of energy applies, in order to accelerate at 8 gravities
for months, TASMANIA would have to provide enough energy to do that,
and her power plant can't even get close to that. The 'dimensionator'
engine is not truly reactionless, it reacts against the external masses
of the universe, making it highly efficient, but you still have to
provide the energy.

Also, the engines can't run indefinitely, they have to cycle down to
cool off and they require maintenance.

So TASMANIA is not a potential R-bomb.


Shermanlee

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