If ignorance, you should take a physics class or two. Momentum, mass, all that good stuff still plays a role in space, and greatly affects propulsion.
If sarcasm. . .if you're getting on his case because he said weight (obviously requiring a gravitational field) rather than mass. . .well. Nitpick much? You knew what he meant. Or perhaps you didn't, in which case refer to section one of this message.
If sarcasm. . .if you're getting on his case because he said weight (obviously requiring a gravitational field) rather than mass. . .well. Nitpick much? You knew what he meant. Or perhaps you didn't, in which case refer to section one of this message.
anyone seen ice used as shielding for ships in SF
- 19/10/2009 04:35:45 PM
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I think this is in THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH by Arthur C. Clarke
- 19/10/2009 05:20:24 PM
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It does sound like the kind of brilliant-yet-obvious idea Clarke would have.
- 19/10/2009 05:31:23 PM
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Found the story. There is an ice-shield, but it's for space dust, not lasers. *NM*
- 19/10/2009 11:47:33 PM
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Ice shielding against lasers?
- 19/10/2009 07:28:51 PM
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It wouldn't reflect, but it would significantly diffract... *NM*
- 19/10/2009 09:25:16 PM
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Perhaps...
- 20/10/2009 08:31:08 AM
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in Shepherd's novels they do burn thru the ice quickly, thus the ships spin *NM*
- 20/10/2009 05:18:53 PM
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Re: Ice shielding against lasers?
- 20/10/2009 03:39:25 AM
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Ignorance or sarcasm?
- 20/10/2009 09:26:31 PM
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