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RE: starship-design: the beamed power problem, again
>I beleave the english translation of the following; is that after about a
>year of 1G acceleration, the ships moving at near light speed. Since the
>microwaves are moving at exactly lightspeed. At some point the beam can't
>really catch up with the ship in time to be usefull.
And I suppose the red-shifting of the beam (relative to the ship) makes
it too weak to do any good, anyway.
-David