(September 29, 2010 at 11:15 pm)theVOID Wrote: Travelling near light speed would induce a much less desirable consequence of the lorentz factor, relativistic massIt would make everything aboard gain a ridiculous amount of mass and possibly cause the ship and everyone in it to implode
Not sure what you mean by M-Class though, where are you getting this rating mechanism?
The increased mass only matters for anything affected by the ship's relative momentum. It wouldn't cause the ship to become a black hole. It is a neat way to turn a rock into a weapon of mass destruction, however, if can accelerate a high-density object to nearly the speed of light, you can cause a huge amount of damage to whatever you hit if the rock were big enough.
The classification system I used (such that it is) is based on Star Trek's system - in which "M-Class" is the same thing as "Earthlike" - otherwise known as "we can shoot on-location instead of a green-room" (for the newer television series) or "we can shoot on an actual location instead of fake rocks painted into a different color." (for the older television series.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
