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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by guhidalg on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:03PM (#30275861)
It's an interesting sci-fi thought, but why wouldn't the second spaceship just catch up with the first one and pick up the passengers to avoid their unnecessary travel time?
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by LocalPCGuy on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:46PM (#30278251)
Why pick up the passengers only? Plan ahead and build it to pick up the entire ship, including not just the passengers but all the materials and supplies they had packed as well.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by taftster on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:11PM (#30275979)
Incompatible docking apparatus, not backwards compatible. Engineers invented these doors, after all.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:21PM (#30276132)
So? If you know there's another spaceship that you're going to pass and you need to pick people up, you make your docking apparatus backwards compatible.

This isn't rocket science :-)

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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by tsol on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:24PM (#30277184)
Yes but this spaceship was made by Apple. It's a feature.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by antod on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:55PM (#30277566)
Because you'd have to leave the 2nd one nearly empty to fit the extra passengers in?

Might be a good idea if nobody wants to go on the 2nd ship though.

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