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- From: ses52823@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marius)
- Subject: Re: Accellerating Spaceship (yet another bird in a plane)
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:27:19 GMT
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- Although I realize this isn't a Star Wars newsgroup...
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- I wanted to clarify my previous definitions of the 'wormhole travel' tech --
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- * Star Wars ships can't maneuver (as per Peter Suk) faster than the speed of
- light. Their hyperdrives are only calibrated to calculate a clear linear
- path (so that they don't, say, wormhole into a sun) and then go go go...
- This is why the Millenium Falcon can't evade the Star Destroyers in some of
- the scenes from all three movies -- they don't have enough time/distance
- to clear a hyperspatial path.
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- * Han Solo does however mention at one point in time (you'd have to see
- rec.arts.sf.starwars to find the source) that his engines (NOT hyperdrive)
- are capable of 1.5 times the speed of light (he says 'point five past c')
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- I don't really want to befuddle the point of my original post -- I was using
- the 'charged particle' (read: plasma) analogy to explain the concept of a
- massless energy field, even though they aren't very analogous. I find the
- image easy to store in one's head. So sue me...
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- Marius
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