Comment on Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship

• stankmut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Starship designers assumed that you want to slow down when you let off the throttle, much like today’s One Pedal mode in electric cars. Otherwise you would’ve engaged cruise control if you wanted to keep the same speed.

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  • KiranWells@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly; the idea is familiarity, not efficiency. To be fair, this argument doesn’t make sense for all situations, so it is possible I misunderstood what the original post was talking about specifically.

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