[The Truth about Space War] (Viewer #395,410)
I’ve never seen that “overheating” thing addressed anywhere, and I’ve read a lot of 1950’s hard SF. You’d think Asimov would’ve covered that at some point.
[The Truth about Space War] (Viewer #395,410)
I’ve never seen that “overheating” thing addressed anywhere, and I’ve read a lot of 1950’s hard SF. You’d think Asimov would’ve covered that at some point.
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I haven’t clicked, but I’d bet Niven covered it. His fi is full of sci.
After the movie “Top Gun” came out, fighter pilots (and others) mentioned that you don’t get that close in actual modern aerial combat. They got that close in the movie to get both planes in the same shot. I think it was Spock that mentioned that Khan was manuerving in two dimensions; the Enterprise did a z maneuver and got behind Khan’s ship. (Why don’t they flip around? My guess would be because Gene Roddenberry flew bombers in World War II, but that’s just a guess.)
Weber with Pope and Zahn mention radiators in their stories set in the earlier days of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Travis Taylor and John Ringo mention crude Earth space ships having to stop and cool off.
So, valid points are made, but not unique points.
Babylon 5 got the 6 degrees of freedom, and the physics of maneuver, correct. I guess the narrator hadn’t heard about it.
ProjectRHO over at http://www.projectrho.com/avtgalstub.html Had a game design where the sign of surrender was the unfolding of the radiators.