Re: Semi-OT: A question on Power Ratios in Sci-fi
Wouldn't a rotating ship require alot more thrust to accelerate. Manuverability would also be greatly reduced, I believe, as it would be harder to change directions. Another problem turning when spinning is that the thrusters to move you into a turn would be rotating and would create a couple of problems, depending on how much you wanted to explain.
They would need to be pulsed on ond off in a serial order to keep thrust on just one side of the ship.
If you wanted to go farther into it, then that wouldn't work either as each thruster would still fire in an arc, not just at one point. It would be massively unstable.
I can't think of any way to explain around this, and there may be other problems I haven't thought ofas well.
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