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3/03 STM Scanning Marathon Pt. 2: Designing the Enterprise-E
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [qb]There IS even drag in space--it's not a comPLETE vacuum, y'know.[/qb][/QUOTE]Reminds me of a short story I read...The pioneers see a streamlined starship docked at a space station and ask one of the locals if it's sleek and dart-like purely for aesthetics, because a ship would have to move insanely fast and near the speed of light for aerodynamics to be a factor in near-vacuum. The local simply replied, "They're that fast." :) [/qb][/QUOTE]The number of stray hyrdogen atoms in the interstellar medium is infinitesimal. On the other hand, at high relativistic speeds the energy released by colliding even with a dust particle is pretty extreme (I've read somewhere that hitting an object with one gram of mass at high sublight speeds would release energy on the scale of a nuclear weapon). If that's so, streamlining wouldn't help, because a hit is a hit. That's what the navigational deflectors are for...to make sure there's nothing to run into. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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