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In movies like Star Wars, when ships come out of (or go into) hyperspace, wouldn't the difference in momentum between above light-speed to essentially 0 kill everyone inside? Knowing this, how long would a safe deceleration from ~99.99% light-speed to 0 take?

by /u/flamingkatana1 in /r/askscience

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