Awatmath.1948 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Wed Mar 10 12:59:45 1982 Re: quasars as continous-drive starships I disagree with the comment that after a year at 1G you are wasting your time putting on more speed. You may be wasting earth-time, but you are not wasting your own dilated time. For the ship, there is no such thing as the "speed of light" barrier. It is fundamental to physics that you can not detect the asymptotic nature of acceleration the Earth observer sees. As far as you are concerned, you go faster and faster, beyond one light second/second as if there were no barrier. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.