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Old September 13th, 2005, 02:31 AM
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Default Re: Semi-OT: A question on Power Ratios in Sci-fi

Wow, I thought that it's surprising that it would take so long to approach the speed of light accelerating at 1 g, so I tried the math and you're right! I guess light is really really fast!
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speed of light in vacuum, c = 299792458 m/s
acceleration of gravity = 9.81 m/s (approx)

# of seconds needed to accelerate from 0 to c:
299792458 m/s
/9.81 = 30559884 sec
/60 = 509331 min
/60 = 8488 hours
/24 = 253.7 days
Armageddon wasn't a bad movie, it was pretty good. Also, beautiful Liv Tyler was in it!
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