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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by taneq on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:38AM (#39273201)
Didn’t the guy who invented the drive essentially squish himself flat (too many G’s to lift his hand and reach the ‘off’ button, anyway) with his first prototype being efficient enough that it was still going during the story?
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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by Chris2048 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:29AM (#39274541)
There's a scene about the discovery: He disables voice control (or switches it to Chinese) so at high-G he cannot hit the stop button, nor command it to stop.
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