Alright, here's how the Kessel run works.
Ship A is the recipient of various smuggled goods.
Ship B is the smuggler's ship, assigned to bring illegal goods to Ship A.
Ship A starts in one system (Not Kessel) and begins travelling to another system (Also not Kessel). There is a distance between these two that can be measured in parsecs. Or lightyears. Or miles. Whatever.
Ship B takes off from Kessel to rendevous with Ship A. The rating is based upon how far Ship A has travelled between the two points. To say that one has done the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs is meant that Ship B has delivered goods to Ship A before Ship A has travelled 12 parsecs.
Star Wars isn't using bad physics, just a bizarre usage of measurement and poor clarity of explanations.
Oh yeah, and that whole beef about dodging blaster bolts and laser beams in various movies... the "lasers" aren't really lasers. Nor do they travel at light speed.
Most of the time (and I use star wars as an example) the weapons are "blasters" which don't actually fire pure energy, but instead a packet of charged particles, which travel slower than the speed of light. Energy is imparted into a packet of matter and is projected towards the target. The amount of matter doesn't have to be too much, may a few milligrams. Energy packs provide most of the power and are swapped out as per normal magazines. When a weapon runs low on matter, that can be easily refilled much as one would refill a water-gun.
So, it would be possible to avoid the blaster bolts the same way you avoid bullets. They can't be dodged, but you can duck behind cover or in the case of the space fighters perform evasive manuvers.
However, I won't even try to disagree about the whackedness of the physics of the space fighters. Newton was spinning in his grave that day, I'm sure.
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Assuming he survives the violent explosion of a shoddily made backyard rocket. Stupid/. effect has prevented me from reading the article, but I would assume he would wear a parachute for that off chance he's thrown clear of the firey blast.
There's probably no way that NASA would lend a hand. Think of the liability that they would be taking on. They'd be advising a citizen on how to build dangerous and potentially lethal device. The rocket man's family could probably start spending the civil suit money already.
What would be wrong with a programmer's or software engineer's union? They way I see it, it could be a good way to ensure more quality in produced code, and a way to prevent unethical coding practices. Not only that, but programmer's would have some greater amount of job security.
Not being very well informed about unions and the way that their inner workings go, I think that a programmer's union could do some good.
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There exists a thin coating of a ferrous metal on the outer skin of the ship to make such EV operations possible.
It would be at most, like 1mm thick. Then the normal hull beneath that.
Alright, here's how the Kessel run works. Ship A is the recipient of various smuggled goods. Ship B is the smuggler's ship, assigned to bring illegal goods to Ship A. Ship A starts in one system (Not Kessel) and begins travelling to another system (Also not Kessel). There is a distance between these two that can be measured in parsecs. Or lightyears. Or miles. Whatever. Ship B takes off from Kessel to rendevous with Ship A. The rating is based upon how far Ship A has travelled between the two points. To say that one has done the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs is meant that Ship B has delivered goods to Ship A before Ship A has travelled 12 parsecs. Star Wars isn't using bad physics, just a bizarre usage of measurement and poor clarity of explanations. Oh yeah, and that whole beef about dodging blaster bolts and laser beams in various movies... the "lasers" aren't really lasers. Nor do they travel at light speed. Most of the time (and I use star wars as an example) the weapons are "blasters" which don't actually fire pure energy, but instead a packet of charged particles, which travel slower than the speed of light. Energy is imparted into a packet of matter and is projected towards the target. The amount of matter doesn't have to be too much, may a few milligrams. Energy packs provide most of the power and are swapped out as per normal magazines. When a weapon runs low on matter, that can be easily refilled much as one would refill a water-gun. So, it would be possible to avoid the blaster bolts the same way you avoid bullets. They can't be dodged, but you can duck behind cover or in the case of the space fighters perform evasive manuvers. However, I won't even try to disagree about the whackedness of the physics of the space fighters. Newton was spinning in his grave that day, I'm sure. ***My apologies for this being one huge paragraph. I seem to be having trouble with my browser...***
Assuming he survives the violent explosion of a shoddily made backyard rocket. Stupid /. effect has prevented me from reading the article, but I would assume he would wear a parachute for that off chance he's thrown clear of the firey blast.
There's probably no way that NASA would lend a hand. Think of the liability that they would be taking on. They'd be advising a citizen on how to build dangerous and potentially lethal device. The rocket man's family could probably start spending the civil suit money already.
What would be wrong with a programmer's or software engineer's union? They way I see it, it could be a good way to ensure more quality in produced code, and a way to prevent unethical coding practices. Not only that, but programmer's would have some greater amount of job security. Not being very well informed about unions and the way that their inner workings go, I think that a programmer's union could do some good.