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Old 02-01-2017, 02:42 AM   #25276
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Oh, yes indeed. I've dropped an SF writer because they had their spaceships manoeuvring like sea-going ships for no reason.
That's often deliberate; Star Trek II is a prime example of using wet-navy tropes to tell a space-navy story, and there are a lot of "Hornblower in Space" series out there. So there is a reason, it's just not a physics-driven reason - the author's just strapped warp engines onto a battleship.

Come to think of it, one of John Ringo's series does almost exactly that. As in, the Vorpal Blade spaceship was created in-universe by taking a wet-navy submarine, making it spaceworthy, and launching it for a series of interstellar adventures.
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