Posted by Matt on
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Hey Jim,

The local gravity field would affect the g forces in a climb or a dive, but the figures in a tight corner would be the about the same as on Earth.

I agree, most of the time, the UFOs were following a straight course, except for a few exceptions. The one that comes to mind is in "The Man Who Came Back" where one of the three attacking UFOs veers away and makes an attack run on SID. Lake ordered one of the interceptors to change course and follow. Even though the last reported speed from SID was SOL 6, it had to have reduced to sublight velocity by the time it passed the moon.

It took the Apollo Astronauts three days to traverse the quarter of a million miles between the Earth and the Moon. SHADO does it much quicker, so they must have some method of dampining the acceleration forces as well as having a way to make abrupt and rapid course corrections. As cool as they look on the screen, the space battles with the fighters making hairpin turns and aerobatic maneuvers in space is unrealistic with a coventional propulsion system.

To give an idea of the incredible speeds and distances we are talking about, consider that it takes a radio signal (or light) about 1 1/4 seconds to travel from the Earth to the Moon. One of the methods of communications used in Amateur Radio, (one of my other hobbies) is called EME or Earth-Moon-Earth. Using high power transmitters and highly directional antennas, a radio signal is bouced off the surface of the Moon and received by another station halfway arond the world. In addition you are able to hear your own signal 2 1/2 seconds after you send it. That's cool!

My point is radio and light travel at 186,000 miles per second. By comparision, an Apollo mission was traveling at about 34,000 miles per hour at the time of the S-IV-B shutdown. The speed of light is fast, but the universe is a mighty big place. *grin*

Matt :)

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> ok, i admit i dont know a lot of this. but here i try.......
> the moon is 1/6 g and off the moon is even less, so you have to change those battle specs.
> and the computers tracked the UFOs at speed of light 8, really hard to slow down or turn at if you dont want to miss your target, so the interceptors were like anti-missles that shot missles at a computer generated vector to explode or impact in the path of the UFOs.
> so they didnt really need to turn much at high speeds.
> jim
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