Best Way To Start A Flooded Engine 1998v70 (with slight diversion to quantum mechanics , relativity, dark matter states,

[RickHaleParker]

Ok i guess it is time to go back to the real world. Ordered some car wax for the beast outside

Why would you want to do that? Reality is boring ... keep your head in the clouds.

[MrAl]

But if you are going 200 times the speed of light, how do you see anything in front of you that might be in the way, and how do you know where you are going to end up when you do stop. You might end up at the event horizon of a black hole, get absorbed, and never to be seen or heard of gain in this universe.

You will still be encountering light but it will be blue shifted by a factor of 200 C. Calibrate your Viewscreen to compensate for the Doppler shift. It might be better to Calibrate your Viewscreen to view your environment in infrared. There is a lot more information in the infrared region of the spectrum. If we get this far into the future the Viewscreens will probably be wideband, false color so we can see the information across the whole spectrum.

A feeding black hole is not a problem you would see the light from the accretion disk. A non-feeding Black hole would induce Gravitational lensing on your Viewscreen.

The rogue planets that have been ejected from all the solar systems that have formed and gone before might be a bigger concern then a Black hole because they have no emittance and insufficient gravity for lensing.

Well the black hole was just one example, but a tiny speck of dust would explode the entire craft, ripping it apart.
The ISS recently was hit by a tiny tiny bit of something and it made a hole 10cm in diameter. And that was maybe 17km per second.

I studied aircraft contol along with other types of control methods and as you might know, if a plane is tilted with the nose down it has to have a certain altitude in order to turn back up and fly normally. Any less altitude and it will hit the ground before it has a chance to recover. What this means is there is always some time delay between the actuation of a corrective maneuver and the actual completion of that maneuver. So if the craft spots a spec of dust or maybe even one atom of carbon it may not have time to steer away.
There was a famous plane accident where the co pilot didnt know this and hit the ground. The pilot didnt realize it until it was too late, that the copiolet didnt know this. Nasty, and what a shame.
I guess in the case of the 200C craft it would have to be automated and very quick to react.

[MrAl]

Ok i guess it is time to go back to the real world. Ordered some car wax for the beast outside

Why would you want to do that? Reality is boring ... keep your head in the clouds.

Well i figure i need a break from all that fun

A neighbor talked me into washing the car said it will rust more if you dont. Didnt make any sense but then i realized that usually if someone washes their car they wax it too, or use a wash and wax formula.
I got some 'ceramic' wax for the first time, have to see how it works i guess. Supposed to be high tech.

[RickHaleParker]

I guess in the case of the 200C craft it would have to be automated and very quick to react.

Energy kinetic = 1/2 m v². That equation has been weaponize see Lazy Dog (bomb).

Navigational deflector is the concept. The idea is to deflect lower mass objects out of the path. Same concept as a wedge plow on a train. How? ... that for some future engineer to figure out. Then again if your velocity is 200 C it is obvious you are not traveling through our universe. A different set of physic may apply.

[MrAl]

I guess in the case of the 200C craft it would have to be automated and very quick to react.

Energy kinetic = 1/2 m v². That equation has been weaponize see Lazy Dog (bomb).

Navigational deflector is the concept. The idea is to deflect lower mass objects out of the path. Same concept as a wedge plow on a train. How? ... that for some future engineer to figure out. Then again if your velocity is 200 C it is obvious you are not traveling through our universe. A different set of physic may apply.

I like ot tell people that also, people that like to go really fast on the highways and dont realize what increased risk they face.
The energy increases as the square of the speed so going 70 instead of 50 means the energy of a one way crash is double, actually 1.96 times as high. Ok, so going 70 instead of 55 is only 1.6 times as much energy, but that's still a significant increase, and still going 77 instead of 55 gets us right back to that 1.96 factor, which is double the energy.

So to put this in a better perspective, going 77 and getting into a one-way crash is almost like going 55 and getting into a HEAD ON crash with another vehicle also going 55. Ok so not quite that bad, but you get the picture.
Something to seriously think about.

[RickHaleParker]

I like ot tell people that also, people that like to go really fast on the highways and dont realize what increased risk they face.

Forget the Lazy Dog ... a motor vehicle is an example of a lethal Kinetic weapon. What get me is, the idiots that cut in front of a 80,000 pounds tractor-trailer then hit the brakes. At 80,000 pounds, 70 MPH the tractor-trailer has so much Kinetic Energy it will not stop at the idiot's rear bumper. It will push right on through.

[abscate]

The safest place on the highway is 2-3 seconds behind that semi. You get a better visual cue for sudden stops, and anything in your path gets precleaned for you.

On top of that, you both save gas!

[850oldschool]

The most insoluble problem of all is how to get the people who don't understand numbers to understand them.

[MrAl]

I like ot tell people that also, people that like to go really fast on the highways and dont realize what increased risk they face.

Forget the Lazy Dog ... a motor vehicle is an example of a lethal Kinetic weapon. What get me is, the idiots that cut in front of a 80,000 pounds tractor-trailer then hit the brakes. At 80,000 pounds, 70 MPH the tractor-trailer has so much Kinetic Energy it will not stop at the idiot's rear bumper. It will push right on through.

Along those lines of thought, i saw such an occurrence although nobody got hurt.
I was driving down Rt 22 east and had to stop quick for a red light. There was a flatbed truck behind loaded to the max with tree logs, big ones, and very long. I didnt notice it until after the stop. The truck did not try to stop it went around me and right through the red light turning the corner. Good thing the logs were well secured because the truck swung to my right and the logs shifted to the left, which if they let go, would have toppled right on top of my car. I feel lucky that the guy who secured them that day did a really good job, that was the ultimate test.

Now on a more expensive note...
James Webb launch delayed YET again.
I cant wait for the launch, should be interesting to see what a 10 billion dollar pile of space junk looks like, ha ha.
I say that because there are SO SO SO many things that have to evolve PERFECTLY once it launches, any one could scrap the entire mission. For one interesting scenario, once it gets out there a little the boosters have to be fired, and fired at teh exactly right time. If they fire at the wrong time, the 10 billion dollar craft will sail right on eventually right out of the solar system, never to be seen or heard of again. Eventually leaving the heliosphere. Pretty crazy.
All we can do is hope and pray everything goes right.

[RickHaleParker]

If they fire at the wrong time, the 10 billion dollar craft will sail right on eventually right out of the solar system, never to be seen or heard of again. Eventually leaving the heliosphere. Pretty crazy.
All we can do is hope and pray everything goes right.

It cost $10 billion because NASA designs hardware for a 99% success rate.

The Soviet space program designed missions for a 99% success rate but they designed the hardware for a 90% success rate at 1/10 the cost. Build two and launch both. 90% + (10% * 90% ) = 99% success rate. Same success rate for 2 billion instead of 10 billion. With two you can get up to twice the work done.