Rupert Boleyn wrote: > 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.
Not necessarily. I've been positing that the bubble has to shed its pseudovelocity before it can be turned off safely; and given the accelerations involved, that would give plenty of time for the bubble to shed the interstellar buildup as it decelerates. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
