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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] I think I started such a topic (or made considerable contributions) at least two or three years ago. The discussion was essentially about the question whether a starship could actually reverse the thrust of the impulse engines to stop. Momentum conservation would essentially forbid that because with thrust to the aft you couldn't move the ship to aft. Or could you, with some sort of pipe that's facing forward? Anyway, what Timo just posted seemed to be generally agreed on. In any case the much more realistic stop would be just turning the ship 180� in the flight plane using the thrusters and then fire the impulse engines (now facing forward) to stop. But we've never seen anything like that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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