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FrankC — (archived)

I have assumed that he must mean while the spacecraft is in the atmosphere, but since the assumption is that our interstellar ship will be constructed in orbit it becomes difficult to understand where Johannes is coming from. Mastering the mysteries of gravity would be helpful, but gravity is not a deal breaker once you have escaped your gravity well.

For Johannes, pehaps we can clarify this by stipulating that we are operating in the near perfect vacuum of space. :)

Gravity is of course ever present and the weightlessness of space is a functtion of counteracting motion (free fall). Once in space gravity is a relatively weak factor compared to mass and motion, as demonstrated by the delta v force/energy required to land on a planet. The larger the object the more energy required to land on it, hit it, whatever.

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