"Felger Carbon" wrote in message ink.net...
"pacplyer" wrote in message
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Inertia: a property of matter whereby it remains at rest or
continues
in uniform motion unless acted upon by some outside force.

The uniform motion in my example was acceleration.

Disclaimer: It's 5:30AM. I'm an engineer, not a physicist. BUT...

Acceleration **by definition** is **not** uniform motion! ;-)


Yeah, I've heard all this befo

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not an engineer!"

and

"Captain, I cannot change the laws of physics!"

My reply:
I'm getting a little bit tired of my senior crewmembers conspiring
against me! The superstructure can do those things in a jacked-up
simulator, understand? It's aviation, but not as we know it. The
main thing here is the Enterprise Carrier (NASA 747) is the most
capable ship in the fleet and if we can somehow harness the power of
those new GE big fan engines by setting them up on the existing
airframe...
We just might get off this rotten planet! Now get to work on the
tether drag calculations! I don't want to hear any more excuses!

(yeah, something like that'll suffice... After all, this is a high
altitude space thread.) ;-)

pac "suffering from hypoxia" plyer