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To: Las Vegas Ron
What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?

There isn't any. You're warping spacetime, not moving through it. From the perspective of the central pod, you're not moving.

17 posted on 09/17/2012 10:45:09 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist; Dead Corpse

So, that whole “inertial dampeners” thing is straight out the window? Perhaps they would still be useful (with some performance improvements) in case of an attack by aliens on our starship?

Every time the Enterprise is hit with a phaser, the bridge crew gets tossed around, or at least jostled as in “Next Generation,” and the inertial dampeners fail miserably even though they work great for warp acceleration.

Just sayin’. ;-)


124 posted on 09/18/2012 5:42:51 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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