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Subject: FTL weapons
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 20:28:47 EST
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Ok, two thoughts on it:
     
1) If the ship is going FTL, then everything inside it is going FTL, too,
   right?  Like, in a plane or car, everything inside is going the same
   speed as the vehicle.  So, if the ship is travelling X, and a torpedo
   is fired at speed v, then the speed of the torpedo upon leaving the
   ship is X + v.  This makes sense.
     
2) I was read an SF book about FTL travel and they made an interesting
   remark.  Now, travel approaches a limit, C (speed of light).  That is,
   The curve approaches C but never hits it.  Well, this guy suggested
   that the limits on the other side work the same way.  Like if you are
   travelling faster than light, you can slow down almost too, but not
   to C.  Same limit, other side.  (The only exception is the thrust
   from one side of C to the other.)  In fact, this author went on to
   say that he thought travel *at* C would be therefore impossible.
     
Well, that's our opinion.  What's yours?  We'd like to know.
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Michael S. Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University
MW9@PSUVM.BITNET
     
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