Post #628895 by Club Nouméa on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 7:01 PM

Sci-fi films and shows: teaching us all about physics and the far future...

Spacecraft in the far future all engage in close combat strongly reminiscent of WWII aerial dogfights.

The highly sophisticated space weaponry used in the far future is only effective at very close ranges, which is why they have to do this.

The advanced propulsion systems found in the small combat spacecraft of the far future cause them to behave and manoeuvre in space exactly the same way as fighter aircraft do in the Earth's atmosphere.

Their rockets must burn continually in order to overcome the air resistance found in the vacuum of space.

And they never use retro-rockets to compensate for the infinite acceleration provided by their rockets during these space dogfights, because the air resistance provided by the vacuum of space naturally slows them down.

In the vacuum of space, these small combat spaceships turn and manoeuvre exactly like aircraft in the Earth's atmosphere, even though they have no proper wings, ailerons, tail rudders, or indeed any wind or air resistance that would enable them to behave like aircraft.

In the very far future, political science has developed exponentially to the extent that the most common forms of government are autocracies, empires and despotisms, along with the occasional very primitive democracy modelled on the ancient United States of America.

And the further into the future you go, the more the inhabitants of the future dress like ancient Romans and Greeks.

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2012-03-15 19:06 ]