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Re: RE: Orbit B



Kelly
> >Just to complicate things.  The mirror is moring at a high fraction of the
> >speed of light.  So relatavistic distortion will distort the beam, mirror,
> >and apparent space.

Brian
> What do you mean by  that last paragraph?  What kind of 
> relativistic  distortions are you talking about?

Relativistic speeds cause visual distortions of the space around the ship.
 Effectivly every thing appears to compress to a rainbow of doppler shifted
stars around the ship.  So seeing, and aiming at the ship would get tricky.
 And of course the dopler shit will eat power from the beam.

Kelly