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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
- Bart Kosko
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| Trajectory Ship | ||
| A spaceship that takes the minimum energy route to another planet, with the passengers weightless. |
| You ought to be glad the Evening Star is a high-gravity ship instead of a trajectory job. Then you’d really be sick, and no foolin’.”
“How’s that?” “I mean that she accelerates or decelerates her whole run. Have to, because she carries cabin passengers. If we had been sent by a freighter, it’d be a different story. They gun ’em into the right trajectory, then go weightless for the rest of the trip. Man, how the new chums do suffer!” He chuckled. |
| Technovelgy from Logic of Empire,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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Compare to other spaceships, in particular, compare to a ship with Lyle drive from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), a continuously operating acceleration providing "weight" to passengers.
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