Timeline for What is a good reason for every spaceship to carry a weapon on board?
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| Mar 1, 2019 at 14:01 | comment | added | Philipp | @somebody "Warp Drives" are a fictional technology, so they have as much or little to do with gravity as the plot demands :) | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 13:48 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @somebody If they bend space, then yes. Gravity is just the result of space being bent. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 8:09 | comment | added | somebody | @MartinBonner Warp drives have nothing to do with gravity though, do they? | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 6:33 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @somebody Not really. Tidal forces are real, and near a compact object (like a stellar black hole) they can be quite large. No reason your warp drive shouldn't do the same unless used carefully. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 22:38 | comment | added | somebody | @MartinBonner would that not be literally tearing a hole/rift/fault in space, not simply folding space... | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 13:24 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @somebody If the space in the front half of the target goes one way and the space in the rear half of the target goes the other, you can tear the target in half. See "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven (and "There is a Tide"). | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 5:05 | comment | added | somebody | If it folds space, wouldn't the other ship be unaffected? The other ship would just move the same way the space does | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 4:26 | comment | added | Vikki | Properly-functioning NTRs don't have radioactive exhaust (except for some open-cycle gas-core designs). | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 4:59 | comment | added | Sterling | I too thought the quote was from Niven, and sure enough, a bit of googling turned up the Kzinti lesson: "a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive." | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | Ender Look | Good point about the quote, it remembers me the 3rd law Arthur C. Clarke. However, I don't understand how this is related with fire gun (I mean, pistols, gun, rifles and that stuff which the OP is asking about). | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | I think you're halfway there. You've established that spacecraft can be dangerous, but not how including a weapon addresses the danger. Furthermore, it's not clear from the OP whether a "ranged weapon" means a handgun/rifle, or a shipborne artillery piece. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 16:30 | history | edited | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2019 at 16:15 | history | edited | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2019 at 16:09 | history | answered | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |