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Originally Posted by Xanthe
The readers will buy most faster-than-light travel IF you take the time to make up a believable technical explanation for it. We appreciate the effort. (My personal favorite is Asaro's imaginary number.)
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But not all readers. Under current circumstances, all FTL drives violate causality, which is why most physicists say they are impossible.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/roc...html#causality
The aphorism at rec.arts.sf.written goes
"Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two." It is logically impossible to have all three, one of them has to go.
(unless you want to open the squirming can of worms that is Causality Protection)
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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Remember that a hole in the spaceship wall sucks everything out, not just the air so weapons which would do so shouldn't even be allowed on the ship in the first place.
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The hole will try and suck everything out, but it is not a black hole. All the loose papers and lightweight things will go into the hole, but nothing more massive
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3g.html#meteors
Mythbusters did a related experiment on blowing a hole in an aircraft, and found that no, the passengers would not be forcibly extruded through the hole like a Play-dough Fun Factory.
And "forbidding weapons that can puncture the hull" still covers a lot of ground. Shotguns, frangible rounds and flechette weapons are all firearms that can kill people dead yet not harm the hull.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3l1.html
Otherwise I generally agree with your list.