[Jamorobo]

Originally posted by Nomor:
Would it not be relative. If a pea came hurtling at you at .99c and hit your 6 foot steel hull would that not be the same as a 6 foot steel hull hitting a pea at .99c. The greater mass would win?
I think this was why energy shields were "invented", to push the debris of space out the way or deflect it?

Well The Challenger space shuttles windscreen was cracked in 1982 by a 0.02mm piece of paint, of course it was traveling at 32,000 kph. So a pea sized chuck of metal would do a hell of a lot of damage to a ship