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So you're sayin' to yourself, "Rob, what's up with the title? Looks like they're headin' out?" Well, much as 1999's f*cked up physics gets taken in stride, I really can't look past the fact that Eagles always cranked along at full thrust, in one direction, all the way home every week. As my first GM was fond of saying, "WROOOOOOOONG!"

You spend 50% of your trip thrusting TOWARDS your target, then spend the second 50% thrusting AWAY from it to kill your momentum. Basic physics. And even in 1999's crazy universe of FTL Moons, I have to believe that such basic scientific laws still apply.

So.... enjoy the view of my ass, Alpha - I'm comin' home!

James Murphy's uber cool Eagle and lab pod. DAZ Studio. Anchor's Old Foghorn barleywine.
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~TerranAbassador May 31, 2012  Student Digital Artist
I'm starting to get the feeling that I should take a look at this show.........
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*Arcas-Art Jun 5, 2012  Professional General Artist
And why not?!?! :D
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~Grayphus Jun 6, 2011
HAHAHAH! Truth! But when I was 7 I did not think much about it. I did not know! There was a certain romanticism that allowed pass through on questions like these! Even if something euphemism series were so pleased that I awoke in astronomy.
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*Arcas-Art Jun 7, 2011  Professional General Artist
It was part of my path to astronomy as well :)
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*AbaCreative Feb 20, 2011  Professional Writer
I just assumed that they had passed through an unusual space cloud that reversed the polarity of the engines - causing them to suck instead of blow - so this is how the ship flies now. Doesn't really matter, of course, as it crashes on the pad.
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*Arcas-Art Feb 20, 2011  Professional General Artist
Imagine if the NASA shuttles had the same safety record as the Eagles? The fleet would have been finished with by '83 and Challenger would have just been "another day in the life of the program". The Eagles MUST have been a seriously lowest bidder contract.
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*AbaCreative Feb 20, 2011  Professional Writer
To be fair, that's not just a military thing. EVERYONE awards contracts to the lowest contractor. I try not to think of that when driving or flying. You'd think, however, they would have sunk some money into air bags at least.
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~bankruptstudios Feb 20, 2011
I love this pic, great work
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*Arcas-Art Feb 20, 2011  Professional General Artist
Thanks :D
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*Blades-123 Feb 19, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Lovely image! And don't get me started about the lousy physics in most SciFi, from sound in space, to fiery explosions in vacuum, to screwed up gravitational orientation, to lasers you can see......
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