To: fiscally_right
The ions are traveling at 80 km/s, not the spacecraft.
66 posted on
11/21/2003 3:29:39 AM PST by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: RadioAstronomer; Physicist
Saw this and thought of you.
68 posted on
11/21/2003 3:41:30 AM PST by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: Junior
Yeah but doesn't that mean that given enough time, the spacecraft could reach that speed in a frictionless environment?
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