Jon Lang wrote:
IOW, it's probably proportional to the ship's kinetic energy. I
wonder if they include a relativistic spike in there? Anyway, it's a
moot point for the warp bubbles, where any danger is unlikely to come
from kinetic energy (unless there's some sort of "gravity gradient"
that the interstellar gas must pass through in order to enter the
bubble; but I'd rather not go there), and more likely to come from
"atmospheric pressure" type effects as whole light-seconds (-minutes?
-hours? -years?) worth of interstellar gas end up cohabiting a bubble
that's not much larger than the ship itself. I think I should be
looking at "crush depth" formulae for this.
Such a vessel will be wanting to turn the drive off well away from
anything it cares about after a long voyage, too. I expect flushing your
bubble will have a fairly distinctive sensor signature as well.
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