NSM wrote:
"mike" wrote in message
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Once you have this precision, you need some way to reliably use it.

I always get a chuckle out of "Star Trek". They've got massive
computers calculating precise timing, trajectories etc.
but they always initiate it with an imprecise verbal command, "ENGAGE".

Hard to take a show seriously where spacecraft make banking turns in space
and go "Whoosh" as they pass you. "Blake's 7" at least got that part right.

N

Well compensating for centrifugal force is plausible, and space is not
a complete vacuum. :-)

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.