What's speed got to do with it?

[ryos]

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090308.html

Is the Touch-And-Go trying to escape a gravitational field or something? There shouldn't be any forces associated with going fast. Accelerating, maybe, but when you're already at speed...

[mbarker]

That may be true normally, but when your unifield feeds are wobbling, and your warship has the structural equivalent of advanced leprosy . . . as Scotty would say, "She can't take it, Cap'n."

Actually, it's the drag of the universal phlogistons against the antimatter containment fields that causes the difficulty, I think. You gotta keep your accumulators dry.

[maxonennis]

Oh thanks, now I've got "What's love gotta do with it" stuck in my head. I hate that song.