On 1/4/06, laserlight <laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Truthfully, the amount of thrust required to spin the
> spacecraft around the center of gravity would be
> negligable with real physics.
I am not a physicist, but....doesn't that depend on the size
of the ship and the time scale?
Sure thing.
If you use 1 turn = 1 hr,
yes, I can see that; but if it's 1 turn = 30 seconds....
But then you have to decide if it is even reasonable to turn any ol'
ship 180 degrees in 30 seconds. At which point you are also
setting limits on what you accept and do not accept, reasonable or
realistic they may or may not be. There comes a point when certain
things just have to be abstracted out a bit in order to reduce other
artificialities.
Mk