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<blockquote data-quote="Keroscene" data-source="post: 39601" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>Re: Physics idea</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>I've been deliberately ignoring things like 'stay in contact with Mars for how long' and "the amount of energy required to move it" because I'm more interested in why matter can't be absolutely solid. Take the actual poking of any planets completely out of the equation and just think of the size of something. Remember that scene from Spaceballs with the five minute intro of just the underside of the ship? Was a play on Star Wars... Anyways there must be an inherent problem where if any object becomes to largg it will take a while for the other end to catch up. A ship one light year across ( or smaller with a nice round number only for example) with engines placed evenly the length of it... If they all fired up at the same time all parts of the whole move at the same time. Either side with engines firing up not in order would take time for the other side to catch up...at what size would the ship be where it would experience the phenomenon of one side moving before the other does? I think it's a pretty interesting question and one that might be thought of in the future if we ever make star destroyers. Do ocean going ships experience this phenomenon but at a smaller scale? Does the stern move faster than the bow? At what point does it become a problem?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keroscene, post: 39601, member: 508"] [b]Re: Physics idea[/b] I've been deliberately ignoring things like 'stay in contact with Mars for how long' and "the amount of energy required to move it" because I'm more interested in why matter can't be absolutely solid. Take the actual poking of any planets completely out of the equation and just think of the size of something. Remember that scene from Spaceballs with the five minute intro of just the underside of the ship? Was a play on Star Wars... Anyways there must be an inherent problem where if any object becomes to largg it will take a while for the other end to catch up. A ship one light year across ( or smaller with a nice round number only for example) with engines placed evenly the length of it... If they all fired up at the same time all parts of the whole move at the same time. Either side with engines firing up not in order would take time for the other side to catch up...at what size would the ship be where it would experience the phenomenon of one side moving before the other does? I think it's a pretty interesting question and one that might be thought of in the future if we ever make star destroyers. Do ocean going ships experience this phenomenon but at a smaller scale? Does the stern move faster than the bow? At what point does it become a problem? [/QUOTE]
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