Re: (3665) Re: still more striker (1)...

>> >  Yes, but real world ships don't have to pull 6G. There were some talk
>> >about the inertial compensators removing the inertia that would tear
>> >the ship up during 6G manuevers, but that sounds like a TL11 version of
>> >lifting oneself in ones hair.
>>
>> So, you disbelieve in inertial compensators when you find them
>> inconvenient, but use them when they support your opinions?
>
>  If I believed in them in the second way (cancel all inertia of the whole
>ship even structural components) any ship in the Imperium would go like
>greased lightning if they put normal (chemical or fusion) rockets on them:

Wait!  If you cancel all inertia, wouldn't you get light pressure effects?  I
can see it now...your grav tank is cruising along on the night side of a planet
when it crosses the terminator and suddenly it's going slower than it was!
Then as you get closer and closer to noon, you get forced closer to the ground!
Of course when the sun is behind you, you speed up!

I seem to recall Heinlein's _Methuseleh's Children_ (sp) using this as an STL
drive...Dive toward the sun, turn it on, and presto, change-o, you are
instantly going the other direction at just under c (I never could figure out
why they weren't going _at_ c).

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