• Zectivi@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I never knew there was a difference. Is it just the nacelle placement and the little “hump” just aft of the saucer?

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          1 year ago

          form drag is proportional to:

          • The denisty of the medium.
          • The velocity of the moving body (squared).

          Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3…

          However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much

          This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.

          So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can’t complain, and I’m pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.

    • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Moving mass towards the center to reduce rotational inertia and increase manoeuvrability! Little changes can bring great improvements in space battles.