Google doesn’t have the answers so a forum is pretty much the only option. I was wondering if near light-speed rendezvous was possible and if you could use translation RCS thrusters and see how they would work, and if they even do.
@Samps0n
vsauce is a yt channel about advanced science things
Huh? Your the one that threw a light speed thought experiment , not me. What is vsauce? I thought it was based on Einstein origins for his e=mc^2, I.e., on the bus a light speed vs a bystander witnessing….
@Samps0n
next what?
btw this sounds like a subject to talk about on vsauce XD
Well you would never catch it. Like even if you could go 5% faster( which is an enormous at relativistic speeds) the fact it was always going that speed and you had to get to full speed means sooo far. Also your trajectories would have to be so exact it would be like finding the pyramid lopsided and on the wrong hemisphere campared to the amount of deviation that would be almost impossible to have exact and awefully difficult to correct. If it was another ship that was also accelerating at the start and the ability to work together that may be possible. There are some fine points that I just can’t calculate but the glaring issues I am confident that the math wouldn’t work out… I mean are humans on the chase plane? Cus this is a sci-fi Q as far as I am concerned anyway considering a h2 molecule or just over is more energy than …. (Fill in the blank) that maybe why you don’t get that answer, tho that’s not you generic question they usually solicit … think of how soft you would have to consider tapping them, it makes me think of a starquake of a magnatar. I don’t think that I can think ‘docking’ with the technology that we have in the game, even including the xml edits. Well I hope you did want me to go on this exercise with you and I hope that I showed myself worthy to go on the next one too
@FriendlyFin I strongly disagree that the SR2 community should have to know that as a requirement, and nobody really knows because we have never tried it.
@HorizonsTechnologies
i’m not so sure about that, usually most teens and adults know science things like 299,792 kilometers per second. also it should be reasonable for the SR2 community to know a lot about speed and things
@HorizonsTechnologies
it requires infinite energy to reach 100% light speed, exceeding light speed would require a way to break the rules of the universe
@Starborn Yeah or go beyond light speed. Which would use a ton of fuel.
@Zenithspeed
i wasn’t really talking about how the spaceship would achieve 90% the speed of light, let’s just say that it was already happening (somehow) and ignoring how it got to the speed of light, and only focusing on the rendezvous and possibly docking
It would be extremely hard to rendezvous at light speed because you are not in orbit with anything. rather, going in a straight line.
literally no reason too but theoretically yes...
if you have infinite fuel.
It makes sense, so long as you are below light speed enough that moving forward to catch up is not impossible (even if it takes a stupid long time)
in game there isn't a "universal speed limit" of 1c unlike IRL, you can go any speed you want, really. as for the rendezvous part, i'm sure it's possible assuming that you make fine enough adjustments
@RudimentaryCheezit your next thought experiment