Operation:Home Run Follow Up
Posts: 699
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 2:08am
I'd evacute the government.
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  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 2:47am
Then all the ORS ships moved activated their tractor beams. Straining their engines to the maximum they managed to pull the Sovereign out of the inexorable pull of the gravity well and establish it a safe orbit


Such Grammar errors, compared to the mostly good spelling and perfect sentence structre of the rest of the post. One might wonder, hmmm, if this wasn't hurriedly inserted?:eye
Posts: 699
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 2:59am
We already proved that.
Posts: 2377
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 3:04am
I also just don't see how that would be possible. The laws of intertia dictate that the amount of force necessary to pull an SSD out of such a fall would be exponentially huge. Given that you would have to be pulling it -- moving backwards, the direction in which you have the least force -- I think it'd be more likely that your ships would be pulled down with it.

Hell, you said it yourself, the pull of gravity was inexorable. So how did you manage to reverse it in two sentences?
Posts: 699
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 3:07am
Yes. I did the math and it falls at mach 3.
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 3:22am
But it would be a slowly destabilizing orbit. A few corrections right away would have saved it from dropping.
Posts: 699
  • Posted On: Feb 11 2004 3:23am
What corrections? The back-half of the ship is molten steel.
Posts: 2377
  • Posted On: Feb 12 2004 12:58am
It's not just speed, it's momentum and inertia, which increase exponentially. An SSD is 1142 times the size of the average fighter but would develop FAR more than 1142 times the momentum.
Posts: 699
  • Posted On: Feb 12 2004 1:05am
Because of mass.
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  • Posted On: Feb 12 2004 1:09am
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No, not exactly. But that's part of the reason.