Re: Need Physics Help!

On 15 Jul 98 at 22:27, Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:

> Oh, I forgot to mention: If you have thrust anywhere near the levels
> needed for FT style combat manuevers, planetary gravitation becomes
> a non-issue -- it's effect is about the same as a small rounding
> error. 

.. you may have missed an earlier thread... 

Taking the 15 minute turn/1,000km per move unit scale, full thrust 
ships have a puny thrust of a 1/4g to 1/8g per thrust point, so 
gravity really sucks. <yes! I worked that pun in at last>
Of course, if you change the scales it changes everything. I'm 
heading for 7,500km per move unit to give about 1g per thrust point.
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