Lets see what I said in post 158, where I actually explained what I was talking about.
You need to know the direction of travel because with that you can calculate the angle of impact.
To deflect an object you must stop its velocity it one direction and then accelerate it in another direction.
A low angle of impact (probably less than 15 degrees basically glancing past the barrier) would indeed require far less energy than trying to stop it. However as the angle increases so does the energy requirement and at a certain angle the energy requirement to deflect the ship would exceed the energy just to stop it.
my comment about direction of travel was more so, that those waters are quite open and the exact approach angle of any ship can differ as there is no physical object/barrier that forces them to stay on a certain course.
Lets zoom and enhance on the "harder" bit you seem to be stuck on.
A low angle of impact (probably less than 15 degrees basically glancing past the barrier) would indeed require far less energy than trying to stop it. However as the angle increases so does the energy requirement and at a certain angle the energy requirement to deflect the ship would exceed the energy just to stop it.
Don't worry guys ignore the first sentence where I talk about glancing angles.
These two sentences align with everything the engineers have said. But somehow I'm wrong
I think that an crash/accident is an uncontrolled event at the ships could hit a barrier at any angle. But i'm wrong on that count as well.
All my posts have been on the importance of impact angles on the design of barriers. But that's not important, if you say ships won't hit your barrier at anything other than glancing angles then they magically can't.
What you've been strawmanning with all your posts is that I apparently inferred that you cannot have a barrier and that they don't exist. This magical post where I supposedly said this, exists in Dowie's head and the head of a few other posters who have fallen under the spell of the Dowie Hole.
Don't worry just ignore this post exists on the third page. Nothing to see here.
I think they only thing that could protect the bridge legs is a concrete island surrounding it.
I guess, I didn't account for the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) that can only ever be hit at angle less than 15 degrees. It doesn't matter what direction the ship is travelling or the angle the ship is at, the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) will magically move the ship so that contact will only ever occur at an angle less than 15 degrees. At this point you are probably wondering if you can control the ship and prevent it directly impacting the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending), why don't you just move the ship away and prevent contact with the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) in the first place, don't worry that is coming version 2 of the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending).
The Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) is made from the densest and hardest material known to man, all the threads that have been sucked into the Dowie Hole. Due to the density and hardness of this material, the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) does not deform as it absorbs the kinetic energy from the ship which would slow it down. No no no, dear reader its easier to just "deflect" the ship rather than to absorb any of the kinetic energy from the ship which would slow it down. This unique property of the material used in the Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) allows ships to bounce off Dowie Hole bridge protection system (patent pending) like a ping pong ball against the wall.
With that we have reached the conclusion of the Dowie hole.
