Christopher Butler | Joseph Shoer, a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering, says any real space battles would likely have — yawn — “relatively long periods during which Newtonian physics govern the motions of dogfighting spacecraft, punctuated by relatively short periods of maneuvering.”

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December 24th 2009

Joseph Shoer, a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering, says any real space battles would likely have — yawn — “relatively long periods during which Newtonian physics govern the motions of dogfighting spacecraft, punctuated by relatively short periods of maneuvering.”

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