[TML] Space Traffic Control (was Re: War rules)

[Knapp]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Jerry W Barrington <
jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/2/08 3:35 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You miss the point of 3 weeks. This is with the thinking that there is
> > nothing in system that can stop the disaster. Perhaps they were all shot
> > down or whatever. So that mean you must jump out of system, get help,
> return
> > and fix or tug the ship out of danger. It is the outside number.
> > Obliviously, if we are talking a tanker at a big spaceport that needs
> help
> > they will get in in hours if not minutes.
>
> If you have something that can *make* the out-system trip, you have the
> fix.
> Just nose it up to the dead ship and nudge it's orbit.  Even if the dead
> ship weighs 1000 times the pusher, and it can only do 1 gee on it's own,
> that's still .001 gee.  That's .85 km/s of push every day!  One day of push
> plus the other 20 days drifting is 61,000 km of course change.
>
>
At first, I was going to say you are totally right and it is an oversight on
my part. I was still thinking that you could have a small jump message pod,
but that is NOT cannon at all.

My next question would be, how hard is it for an Xboat to push a huge battle
wagon. I am not saying, is it strong enough but more where do you push on
it. How do you steer it. I am sure if you knew the mass distribution of the
ship you could find the right point but I can see it being  a bit hard to
avoid just spinning it and knowing the mass distrobution of the ship might
be hard if it were totally dead.

SHIPS LOCKER
Had another thought that all ships might come with a set on small rocket
motors and fuel cell that are portable and could be taken out of storage and
attached to the outside of the ship. Each unit would be self contained and
have a transmitter so that they could all be linked to a little portable
computer to coordinate the steering of the broken ship.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand
men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.
As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
in their labor.

2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,
striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's
condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred
ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height
of inhumanity.