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Old 2006-04-17, 18:55   Link #31
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Originally Posted by NightbatŪ

Comets have been doing so for ages, why wouldn't shells be able to
go long distances, even when out of fuel they would keep going

but I do agree that the effective range of weapons can only go so far:

"....Incoming missle, ETA: 4 days, 6 hours and 12 minutes..."
"Game over Man! We're done for!"
actually commits are in orbit around the form closest to them witht the most mass. While i cant speculate how a commet can fall out of its Lagrangian point of an object, (i simply dont kno that much bout this) its probally due to an irregular parabola. of course just another n-body problem ^^;;
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