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Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by hanniabu on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:56AM (#21790437)
> if you want more speed for a fixed power then your hull dimensions really matter.

So in other words there's no max speed since we're not talking about fixed power.

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Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by willis936 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:03PM (#21790480)
I’m not sure I understand.

Power isn’t what’s important. It’s power per volume/weight. If you have an infinitely dense power source then you can send matter at the speed of light through any medium. Is this really an important point to make?

Edit: Oh I see what’s going on above in this thread. It’s nuanced but I believe the original point was that in the Real World with Real Power Sources you have a Real Top Speed. You can’t just always dump more power into your ship to increase it and the right way to increase the max speed is to control hull dimensions.

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