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Old 10-06-2019, 01:07 PM   #5
Fred Brackin
 
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Default Re: [Spaceships] How should a large station... duck?

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Originally Posted by DataPacRat View Post

Without drifting too close or far from its home star, how can the cylinder's orbit be jogged, to make it more difficult for a hostile near-c interstellar impactor to target the cylinder?

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It needs to change its' movement in an unpredicatable fashion with a frequency that is shorter than the amount of time impactors have to adjsut their courses.

So if that relativistic doomsday machine has to commit to one particular course a month befre impact change your orbit more often than that.
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