drag in space

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships in SE4 do not go anywhere near the speed of light, so we don't have to worry about that.

But what kind of enviroment do you encounter when traveling through the wormhole ?
It is conciavable that "compressed space" or something can create some need for sleeky ships.

Based on data found in links, thanks Slick , I estimated that ship traveling at 0.3c between Sun and Alpha Centauri will get about 2kW per meter^2. Enough to start glowing red...

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships in SE4 do not go anywhere near the speed of light, so we don't have to worry about that.

Exactly what i thought. In SE4 a ship needs 2 turns to go from the system's star to the the Warp point outside the system, which in our solar system would be over 4 Light Hours, and every turn in SE4 its about 40 days (36.8?) so the speed of the ships would be aroung 625 Km/sec.
Wow, I thought they would be faster than that!

[oleg]

Originally posted by Aloofim:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships in SE4 do not go anywhere near the speed of light, so we don't have to worry about that.

Exactly what i thought. In SE4 a ship needs 2 turns to go from the system's star to the the Warp point outside the system, which in our solar system would be over 4 Light Hours, and every turn in SE4 its about 40 days (36.8?) so the speed of the ships would be aroung 625 Km/sec.
Wow, I thought they would be faster than that!

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But first they must accelerate to that speed, right ? That means to make the trip in time, the peak velocity would be much higher than apparent _average_ velocity.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by oleg:
But first they must accelerate to that speed, right ? That means to make the trip in time, the peak velocity would be much higher than apparent _average_ velocity.[/QB]

There is a big diference between 625 Km/sec and 300 000 Km/sec.......
Ships in SE4 are traveling at 1/480s of light's speed.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Aloofim:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships in SE4 do not go anywhere near the speed of light, so we don't have to worry about that.

Exactly what i thought. In SE4 a ship needs 2 turns to go from the system's star to the the Warp point outside the system, which in our solar system would be over 4 Light Hours, and every turn in SE4 its about 40 days (36.8?) so the speed of the ships would be aroung 625 Km/sec.
Wow, I thought they would be faster than that!

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One month in SE4 is exactly 30 days. Watch the movement replay log some time.

[couslee]

Yes, but now we have the new "conceptual math". The answer can be wrong, but the question gets marked as correct if the student shows he "has the concept"



30 days, 36.8 days, I knew what he was getting at. lol

[Fyron]

The exact answer isn't very important, really. That can be found with a calculator quite easily.