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It’s a fin on the top, for aerodynamics

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I may not be a smart person, but aerodynamics… in space?

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form drag is proportional to:

  • The denisty of the medium.
  • The velocity of the moving body (squared).

Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3…

However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much

This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.

So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can’t complain, and I’m pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.

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I have no grounds to question anything that you said, but all I can imagine is this image.

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4 points

Also those racing stripes make it look real sharp

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