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Why did he think to mention airplanes? The whole concept of airplanes would be obsolete with anti-gravity.
by hackerbabz 7y ago
Why did he think to mention airplanes? The whole concept of airplanes would be obsolete with anti-gravity.
- saalweachter 7y agoI feel like in 40% of SF stories it will at one point be important that your spaceship not have the glide ratio of a buttered brick, even if it has an antigravity drive.
- regularfry 7y agoDepends on the nature of the anti-gravity drive. If it's like an engine, which needs some sort of process to operate, then yes, it can fail to work and you want a backup system. If it's a specific material, which works like a magnet in that the anti-gravity effect is present as a result of the passive configuration of matter, less so.
- saalweachter 7y agoThe Enemy could still shoot and destroy your cavorite plates, or the mechanism which turns them so that it does or doesn't block gravity from the desired direction.