On Monday, October 14, 2013 3:41:50 PM UTC-4, Bruce Goatly wrote:
> Can science fiction ever get the science right? - 
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24518305>
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> "'My pet peeve is inertia,' says [Ed] Trollope [spacecraft operations 
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> engineer at technology firm Telespazio VEGA Deutschland]. 'There are many 
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> good reasons for keeping your engines on in space, but 'maintaining speed' 
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> is not one of them. If you turn your engines off, you don't stop.'
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> "Some do it slightly better than others. 'I'd prefer not to single out a 
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> single film/book/series for this particular error, because it's so common - 
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> but I will laud the old television show Babylon 5, for doing a wonderful job 
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> of representing the mechanics of spaceflight inertia so nicely,' explains 
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> Trollope."

Very much so. Loved that about B5.
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