Re: Real Space Combat Help:

Mike Wikan writes:

@:) 5% of Lightspeed (C) is 49,104,000 FPS -or- 9300 Miles Per second
@:) So let's scale back to 1% of lightspeed -or-1860 MPS
@:) 
@:) I think that's achievable given tech of the 2050-2075 era.

  Isn't Voyager moving at something like 50,000 mph?  That would be
13.89 mps.  So we're talking a factor of 100-150 (133.92).  That's a
lot but in space there isn't anything really preventing you from going
fast, as long as that's all you want to do.  So far there's never been
any reason to make something go fast in space so we haven't done it.
So I agree it's conceivable in the near future.  I don't know whether
it'll be practical in the forseeable future but it is possible.

  I certainly wouldn't want to have a head-on with voyager, much less
something moving .01c.

-joachim