From: "Bruce Goatly"    
      
   Can science fiction ever get the science right? -    
      
      
   "'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."   
      
   --    
   Bruce    
      
      
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
    * Origin: Banana milkshake with a twist of lemon (1:2320/101)