June 26th, 2002, 09:36 PM
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Re: Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)
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Originally posted by Krakenup:
It would take huge engines to maneuver effectively (dogfight) in space. 
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Right, not to mention that by any process of propulsion that we can even theorize about it would take a tremendous amount of fuel to do the things they do in all these shows. Star Wars, BSG, B5, SAAB. They are all guilty of that "little fudge".
The Apollo space craft that went to the mooon and back travelled for several days, but all together the engines fired for what, maybe twenty minutes total? Including the launch from earth probably around twenty minutes. The rest was just inertia.
But space fighters are just so darn cool. 
Geoschmo
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