If one guy can escape while the other can't. That's a difference.Captain Seafort wrote:No, it isn't - you're talking about a difference of fifteen hundredths of one percent. That is not enough to make any difference in any practical situation.
I screwed up. I was thinking 100 kilo km/s.Thorin wrote:What? You're out by about 1000 there. c = 300,000 km/s. Hence 1/3 c = 100,000 km/s. Or 100,000,000 m/s. Or 100 Mm/s.Coalition wrote: 100 km/s is roughly 1/3 c. Assuming phasers beams move at c, that puts the effective combat radius at 1/3 that compared to phasers. That's a good reason not to use kinetic weaponry as your primary armament. You'd have to drop the projectile mass down and increase the speed, and at that point, you are firing a particle beam rather than a railgun/coilgun.
