From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:45:26 -0800, Chris  wrote:

> Airplanes turn!  I did it last weekend in my flight training.  
>
> Eesides, Star Wars was going faster than the speed of light in the
> Millenium Falcon (et al).  Same for Star Trek.  And, for those who care,
> you can't (supposedly) travel faster than the speed of light.  However,
> that's what they said about the speed of sound, too.
>
> /Chris
>
>
> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> You don't.  That is Star Wars (the movie) physics, where vehicles move
>> like airplanes.
>>

You don't get it.  SciFi movies show space craft able to move in arcs like
airplanes -- even though they are in a vacuum.  For a vehicle moving near
the speed of light to travel in an arc equivalent thrust would be applied
at a large angle to the side.  Depending on how tight that arc is the
occupants should be smashed to atoms.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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