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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Identity Crisis: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [qb]I was presuming a vessel with a sublight impulse reaction drive system of very high efficiency[/qb][/QUOTE]Really? Please tell us how your are defining efficiency in this case. Because conservation of momentum shows that the thrust reverser works perfectly regardless of what happens inside the engine itself.[/qb][/QUOTE]"Efficiency" in this instance refers to the percentage of drive products that actually get used for thrust, energy imparting to the spaceframe in the appropriate direction, instead of floating off and doing nothing. My cannonball example vessel, for instance, had roughly one hundred percent efficiency, and thrust reversers were not useful. The example ship for the argument to the contrary had a ship which slung most drive products out of the ship in a more wasteful fashion, and it was these drive products which caused reverse thrust to be possible, since they only ever imparted energy to the reverser. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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