From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:13:57 -0500, Gary Wiltshire wrote:

> 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.

One of the better things about Babylon5 - as a general rule, they got it right.

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