It's probably just me, but...

[Thargoid]

Greetings,

May this alien offer a suggestion, that a balance could be done with max speed and perhaps acceleration? (if that's possible). Or at least turning and maneuvering.

To take the biodome example, I would wholely expect that to have an absurd top speed, given what it has to do and where it has to go. But equally to get to that speed I would also expect the acceleration time to be measured at least in decades.

Some of humankind's probes had very small accelerations (jets of radiation in some cases), but given they've been accelerating for years some of them are now clipping along at a fair old rate...

[DaddyHoggy]

Voyager spacecraft details

Both are going at a fair lick now about 17km/s (~38,000mph) and are about 1/2 light day away.

It's nice that they're still both operating pretty well and over expectation - only to be vap'ed as target practice by those bl**dy Klingons in a few hundred years time.

[Commander McLane]

It's nice that they're still both operating pretty well and over expectation - only to be vap'ed as target practice by those bl**dy Klingons in a few hundred years time.

I thought one of them was to return as a vast artificial intelligence in a few hundred years' time, annihilating a lot of those bl**dy Klingons on its way?

[DaddyHoggy]

@Cmdr McL - That was (from memory) Voyager 6 (i.e ST:TMP)

Edit: Corrected number of Voyager probe to maintain my geek status

[Frame]

hmm no wonder the Klingons shot it up on site then ehh... so it was not target practice.. it was a pre emptive strike before another v´ger crossed paths with them again.

[JensAyton]

I thought it was Pioneer 10 the Klingons shot up. :-)

[DaddyHoggy]

D'oh! You're right (again!)