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Old September 12th, 2005, 07:22 PM
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Default Re: Semi-OT: A question on Power Ratios in Sci-fi

Crunched a few numbers:

At 1g, you could accelerate for 353.8 days and still not reach the speed of light (barely).

During that time, you would travel 2.85 E12 miles (yes, Starhawk, that's teramiles )

So if you would start decelerating at 1g at the halfway point, you could travel ~5.7 E12 miles (just under 1 light-year) in 2 years.
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