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Discussions / Re: C (299,792 km/s)
« on: February 06, 2013, 08:43:27 AM »Ok, I tracked down a statement from a crewmember:QuoteOur trailer shows a weapon test (https://vimeo.com/56660860P) which was meant to show that the entire ship is essentially one huge cannon. By removing the engine block and shooting out the back they can go super fast. As for slowing down, all they have to do is shoot out the front again, or use the smaller engines to turn themselves around and accelerate in the other direction (the reason to do this is they are using the shield in the back as a pusher plate, whereas in the front there would be nothing to absorb the impacts).
As for angry crew members, that would be something we would love to explore in a longer version. But alas it is a short and we tried to pack a lot in there!
Really happy to see people discussing it!
Which just confirms that those guys don't have a clue about physics and did not care much to make this believable, which is a really bad thing for scifi.
Tel me what's wrong about this, I didn't see the video but from what you quoted I don't see anything wrong science wise.