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driftfleet2015-06-06 05:19 pm
wilder) wrote in driftfleet2015-06-06 05:19 pm
Voice
Who: Kaneis Major
Broadcast: Voice, all fleet.
Action: SS Wonderduck
When: This week!
[What's this? An actual transmission from Kaneis? It's on voice only, and guess what- he sounds as apathetic as ever.]
Hey, I don't want to alarm anyone, but I was looking at the scans earlier while trying not to crash into these space rocks- asteroids? Whatever.
Anyway, you remember those guys that tried to kill us about two months ago? The guys that kicked the living crap outta us? Those guys? Yeah, I think they're back again. At least, that's what the scanner says, it's hard to really get a good read.
[He gives a yawn] Yeah. Just thought someone would like to know.
Broadcast: Voice, all fleet.
Action: SS Wonderduck
When: This week!
[What's this? An actual transmission from Kaneis? It's on voice only, and guess what- he sounds as apathetic as ever.]
Hey, I don't want to alarm anyone, but I was looking at the scans earlier while trying not to crash into these space rocks- asteroids? Whatever.
Anyway, you remember those guys that tried to kill us about two months ago? The guys that kicked the living crap outta us? Those guys? Yeah, I think they're back again. At least, that's what the scanner says, it's hard to really get a good read.
[He gives a yawn] Yeah. Just thought someone would like to know.
Voice
I know how motion works.
[ Just not a lot about the vacuum of space. ]
Voice
[Now excuse him as he goes on to explain it anyway because of course he memorized the mathematical-esque laws of science. In fact he even loses the apathy in his tone while he talks because HOMG MATH.]
Anyway, the first Law of Motion is that an object that's in motion will stay in motion unless something affects it. If you're on a planet and you throw something, that "something" is usually air resistance and gravity, and they cause whatever you throw to slow down and eventually stop.
But space is a vacuum so there's no air to resist anything! And gravity's only a problem if you get too close to a planet or star and your ass is moving too slow. So things already in motion stay in motion. What does that mean? That unless an object out here has a way to change it's speed on its own, like say a ship's engine, it should be moving at a pretty consistent speed on the radar.
If it's not? Then it's a ship or something really weird.
Voice
He does listen carefully though. This is actually good to know, even if he's not saying thanks for the lesson. ]
And there aren't any other kind of ships out there other than these ones and our own?