Hello Folks,
As I was envisioning what happens when you use a star system that is in motion, the question of "What happens when the sun is in the way of where you want to go" arises.
Question: At what point will a 1 G craft run into problems due to the gravitational effects of the Sun where the ship's acceleration is not sufficient to pull away from the sun's gravitational pull - causing the 1G ship to divebomb the surface of the star/sun?
Just an idle and curious question to be sure, but it would be perhaps interesting if one can determine where the danger zone is of coming too close to a star not because of environmental issues per se, but because getting too close risks the ship being pulled in.
Anyone have a way of answering that?
As I was envisioning what happens when you use a star system that is in motion, the question of "What happens when the sun is in the way of where you want to go" arises.
Question: At what point will a 1 G craft run into problems due to the gravitational effects of the Sun where the ship's acceleration is not sufficient to pull away from the sun's gravitational pull - causing the 1G ship to divebomb the surface of the star/sun?
Just an idle and curious question to be sure, but it would be perhaps interesting if one can determine where the danger zone is of coming too close to a star not because of environmental issues per se, but because getting too close risks the ship being pulled in.
Anyone have a way of answering that?