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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: Improving Starships Enroute
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 16:18:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 16:18:52 1985
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> 
> You would need a very sophisticated mathematician and quite a fast computer
> to calculate the doppler shift assuming the starship is constantly thrusting
> which necessary to reach a fair % of c. Otherwise communications would be a
> impossible.

Actually the equations would be much simpler than, say, the AGA gasflow
equations for turbine flowmeters, let alone orifice plates. You can do those
in Forth on an 1802 in realtime. Doppler shift & constant-acceleration
problems are simple.
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