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Looks like someone has been reading Niven. That picture shows a ship built off a General Products #2 hull, and is come straight off the book "Neutron Star": ht
by kordless 15y ago
Looks like someone has been reading Niven. That picture shows a ship built off a General Products #2 hull, and is come straight off the book "Neutron Star": http://ca.pbsstatic.com/l/41/6941/9780345336941.jpg http://ca.pbsstatic.com/l/41/6941/9780345336941.jpg
With that hull you could fly past a neutron star and live, if you could survive the tidal forces.
- Vivtek 15y agoThe point of Neutron Star is that the tidal forces kill you - although the #2 hull will be fine.
- ghshephard 15y agoActually, we should be precise - particularly as I first learned about how tides worked from that particularly novel - the tidal forces will only kill you if you are at either extremity of the ship. If you manage to stay balanced right at the very center-of-gravity, you'll be fine. (We'll leave aside, for now, the highly unlikely scenario of a space travelling civilization visiting a neutron star in close orbit and not taking extreme caution regarding it's tidal forces)
- ars 15y agoBut that's impossible to do. Just the length of the human body already counts as not in the very center of gravity.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoBut the guy in Niven's storey survived! By balancing in the center of his ship.