Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:09:13 -0700
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 

Well ... that's still rather more than the couple of dozen LY
I thought of ... it seems then that Urth's red sun probably
is _not_ particualrly visible from the Bleen system.

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> From: Michael Andre-Driussi [mailto:mantis@siriusfiction.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: urth@urth.net
> Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
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> Blattid wants new numbers.  Okay!  A 10:1 time dilation=20
> suggests somewhere between .98 c and .99 c, I reckon.
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>                OBJECTIVE   SUBJECTIVE
> LEG    RATE      TIME         TIME      DISTANCE
> Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
> Glide  0 g     700 years    70 years    686.0 light years
> Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
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> TOTAL          900 years   230 years    687.0 light years
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> >... I tend to think that the _Whorl_ most likely has a boost=20
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> >-- probably .01G or so. Reasoning: the Cargo know enough=20
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> >of gravity that they can discuss, in fairly learned terms,=20
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> >affects the behavior of GEVs going too fast in an antispinward=20
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> >things fell a bit differently...
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