From: "David E. Powell" <David_Powell3006@msn.com>

On Monday, October 14, 2013 3:41:50 PM UTC-4, Bruce Goatly wrote:

Can science fiction ever get the science right? -

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24518305>

"'My pet peeve is inertia,' says [Ed] Trollope [spacecraft operations

engineer at technology firm Telespazio VEGA Deutschland]. 'There are many

good reasons for keeping your engines on in space, but 'maintaining speed'

is not one of them. If you turn your engines off, you don't stop.'

"Some do it slightly better than others. 'I'd prefer not to single out a

single film/book/series for this particular error, because it's so common -

but I will laud the old television show Babylon 5, for doing a wonderful job

of representing the mechanics of spaceflight inertia so nicely,' explains

Trollope."

Very much so. Loved that about B5.

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