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February 10th, 2003, 04:52 PM

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Re: drag in space

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships in SE4 do not go anywhere near the speed of light, so we don't have to worry about that.

But what kind of enviroment do you encounter when traveling through the wormhole ?

It is conciavable that "compressed space" or something can create some need for sleeky ships.

Based on data found in links, thanks Slick

, I estimated that ship traveling at 0.3c between Sun and Alpha Centauri will get about 2kW per meter^2. Enough to start glowing red...

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