...the inability to feasibly achieve a greater speed, or the inability to protect the vessel from micro-impacts? I'd like to hear ideas on what kind of shielding would be needed at speeds of 300 to 3000 Km/sec., considering what would be the effect of hitting a micrometeoroid at that speed. Or even the effect of interstellar gas, as sparse as it may be. Also, would there be any practical way of detecting a dangerous object which would destroy any reasonable sized shield, in time to alter the ship's course the tiny amount needed to avoid it? Say, for example, the size of a baseball.
2007-09-27
10:58:34
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