Re: Fighter Fur Balls a thing of the past?

----- Original Message -----
From: Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Fighter Fur Balls a thing of the past?

> On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:34:32 -0400, Richard and Emily Bell
> <rlbell@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> >If you can sidestep Einstein, odds are the inertial compensators can
get
around
> >the problem of g-loading pilots to death.
>
> You know, I KNEW someone was going to mention that! The inertial
compensators
> may save someone inside the fighter, but won't affect the actual
inertia
of
> the fighter itself. IF you can kill the inertia of the fighter, then
you've
> not only countered Einsteinian physics, but you've essentially laid
the
ground
> work for battledreadnoughts manoeuvring like fighters (so, why have
> fighters?).

Smaller targets, they cost less, fewer resources to maintain, etc etc
etc.