February 11th, 2003, 05:19 PM
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Second Lieutenant
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Re: drag in space
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Originally posted by oleg:
You are completely wrong. The SE speed of light has been estimated before :
According to these canon opuses, on average SE ships move at 1-3 % c. It is also mean that maximum ship speed can be even higher. For example, we can assume that combat speed, which is twice faster than "strategic" speed is in fact the max. speed. Then it can be as high as 0.05c !
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Redoing my numbers:
Year=300 days (10Months of 30 days)
Crossing a system in two turns (60 days)
2000 Km/sec or 0.66% of c, not 3%
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