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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Gotta informed n00b laying down the physics quickness, love it.
You're right about the difficulties of maneuvering in space but it's not impossible, just takes thrust and overcoming inertial problems with occupants and the movement of the spacecraft in question.
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And the "thrust" as we are able to do it now requires ejecting mass at very high speeds, and the mass of what is ejected relates to the mass of the total entity. In other words, if you have to "turn" a lot, it requires your ship to be mostly fuel to do it...
and the "turn or stop on a dime" at 0.1c... get real... it would crush everything inside the ship... and the ship...