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How do you brake in a vacuum? There's no air resistance, nothing to create friction.
by verisimi 4y ago
How do you brake in a vacuum?
There's no air resistance, nothing to create friction.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoYou use thrust to decelerate. Same thing you use to accelerate.
- Rastonbury 4y agoFlip the ship around and thrust
- avhon1 4y agoIt's not a perfect vacuum out there, there is an interstellar medium. You could create non-negligible drag with a huge sail or magnetic field, like a Bussard Ramjet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
- hallway_monitor 4y agoI was looking for this as I have always seen the ramjet as the only feasible possibility for non-magical long-term propulsion. Of course that's if we don't find a way to trick the universe into FTL travel.