I don't understand you, what is the "something" supposed to be in this context?

They have a large negative momentum relative to you. Therefore you have to exert a large force to maintain velocity, due to the conversation of momentum. There's no getting around that once they collide, no matter what you do with them.

Myeah, there'd have to be some kind of cosmic conspiracy to keep Nitrogen away... like, the Nitrogen police. Or something.

Right, but you appreciate that it's just an article of faith? I've never heard a physical theory that suggests you can just "move chunks of spacetime" around.

I think what you're failing to realise is that the laws of physics are what's axiomatic, not the existence of interstellar travel.

It's stripping the ship's energy away, not adding to it. It'd be like trying to use ice to warm your room.

No, photons aren't fuel.

srsly tho wat

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Super interesting. It's a convincing analysis, and I'm surprised nobody's done it before. Is there any way in theory to prevent collisions with photons other than warping spacetime?

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Arya's one of the main POV characters in Feast, isn't she..? And she's in Essos. So is Sam for most of the time. And like you said, the first half of Dance is set in "Essos and the North", which makes no geographical sense whatever, and then the second half is set absolutely everywhere.

Interesting comment, nicely said. And on that theme... I utterly hate Cersei and loved watching her destroy everything in Feast for Crows. I even enjoyed her public humiliation. It was because her downfall and her punishment were all so perfectly apt. I've never detected any insecurity in her actually — not in the…

Firstly, Arya's there by her own volition. Secondly, Harrenhal.

This was a dream sequence? From what I recall it was just a highly stylised scene in which Scott Pilgrim finally gets "taken in for coffee".

...wat

Relatively. It was a relative statement and you're ignoring that for some reason. Nobody's saying bad things don't happen. But is Jaime really in a worse off state than when he's lying defeated in the dungeons at Riverrun? Or when he's held captive by the Mummers and gets his sword hand hacked off? No, stop being…

You provoked me into looking up whether that's possible... turns out yes and no. Probably not for this eclipse, its latitude was too great; but near the equator, the rotational velocity of the Earth is large enough that you can just about do it.

Yes..? I'm aware that's what he said he was going to do. Have you actually read the books though? Because he didn't. Feast was just as geographically spread out as the other books, and the included locations were not connected in any logical way. Dragons even more so; and then in the second half of Dragons he just…

you knew I was saying