Timeline for How to effectively slow down a ship about to shoot through the Solar System at 0.6c?
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 11:44 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @john if JJ can get magnetic falling bombs with smileys, I stand by my nets. They are better than boarding, everyone knows that a tiny net is a death sentence. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | John | what advantage does a net have over just docking with the shuttle? Nets doesn't work that well in space to begin with. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 22:47 | comment | added | Yakk | Nothing in the question '[...] means that Earth technology has means of reducing the effects of ultra-high G force on "squishy flesh things" like people.' , as demonstrated by the fact that you can reach 0.6c at 1 G over less than a year. You claim the question implies gravity shielding. Gravity shielding is not very hard sci-fi at all. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 20:24 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @Yakk It is assumed in the question body that humanity has the means to reach that speed. Or the runaway ship wouldn't be at such velocity. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | Yakk | Reaching 0.6c with 1G of accelleration takes on the order of a year. No gravity shielding required. Hard part is energy, propellant and surviving interstellar particles. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 14:07 | history | answered | Mindwin Remember Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |