There’s no way in hell a Galaxy-class starship has enough delta-v in its cargo bays to meaningfully affect its trajectory, not to mention that the thrust vector wouldn’t be aligned with the ship’s center of mass. All that would achieve is the starship going out with a fucking fart_reverb.mp3.
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rtxn@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Maybe someone was also gonna kick out a few crates of black holes out the door?
xia@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Are you telling me that air… under ordinary atmospheric pressure… is somehow LESS dense than metal? :shocked: :)
tetris11@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
if they ignite the air in the cargo bay before outgassing it maybe
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
It took the deep space 1 probe (which only weighed 373kg) 73.5 kilos of xenon through an ion engine to get a delta v of 4.1km/s.
So even if you turned the whole cargo bay into fully ionized plasma and somehow shot it out in a well directed beam, I seriously doubt it would cause any noticeable change in the trajectory of a million metric ton galaxy class starship
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Legit the whole storyline of Star Trek TNG episode “cause and effect” if you repeat it a few times and end it with them escaping eventually.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Fuck. This is like reading a 19th century Russian novel. Do you have a table of characters to remind me who is who?