From: adam.w.krajewski@gmail.com   
      
   I will just come back when I figure this quoting out :))))   
   I don't even know what thunderbird is.    
   So, I will do stuff like that    
      
      
   "I just put my cursor where I want to type something and hit "enter" three   
   times to make space."   
      
      
   Hope this looks good.   
      
   "If it will help at all I'll upload it to Google Photos."   
      
   Great idea, this would help a lot, post a link too. ;)    
      
   "Also the ship will be continuously moving *into* that exhaust plume but I'd   
   guess (hope) that it would have cooled to the not-dangerous point by then."   
      
   But isn't the exhaust moving at great speed away from our ship? I mean when it   
   brakes, the plume moves at 0.7c or so relatively to the spaceship, so it can't   
   "go back".    
      
   "One more thing- remember the engines are great big X-ray floodlights. They'll   
   probably be detectable for many millions of miles. Also, the exhaust plume and   
   whatever aleady-present gases you're running through will be fluorescing their   
   asses off in the    
   visible part of the spectrum. It will be a fearsome thing to see, getting   
   bigger and brighter every day."   
      
   Hm, so we have nice psychological - radiological weapon, fear the Mother Earth   
   you Colonials ;p   
   Here comes also a problem of shooting at interstellar spaceship after it's   
   detected, but I'm unsure how it would work out, because of how fast it moves   
   and small reaction time.    
      
   "On final thing- do you know the Kzinti Lesson?"   
      
   This thing about powerfull drives being powerful weapons of mass destruction?   
   Also, when craft decelerates into orbit around star, there is small chance of   
   hitting a planet. Space is so big that you could need millions of ISVs to   
   cover whole system.    
      
   PS how old are you? (to be fair I'm 16)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)