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Old 10-17-2012, 09:42 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by Trip View Post

In space, if you jet yourself one way for just a moment, you will just keep accelerating with nothing to cause friction to slow you down, but you don't feel it at all.
Correction, you would keep accelerating only while the engine was on. When you shut it off, you would remain at the same velocity forever, unless disturbed.

Also, when you say "you don't feel it", I disagree, because your back would be pressed into the seat when you hit go. In fact that's the biggest BS about sci-fi movies, next to the noise in space issue.

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