Re: starship-design: Re: Mystery force tugs

[rmarlin@network-one.com (Gene & James Marlin)]

> There are a variety of ways this could
> happen, such as an asymmetrical temperature distribution in the RTGs
> themselves or the RTGs being obscured behind some part of the
> spacecraft.

Spacecraft themselves are so asymmetrical it would be difficult to predict
the effect of such a vector force not designed into the probe. I also wonder
if magnetohydrodynamic drag can effect long-term missions.

My problem with citing unknown physics as the cause is not in the strength
of any particular explanation, it is the apparent lack of the effect
occuring equally on all bodies, and I wish to remind the readers that the
prototype examples are sister missions.

-Gene