Posted on 07/20/2012 11:14:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Got the reference. Hee hee. :)
I’m with you there, if it’s 100% cacao. Mmmm... “edible planets.”
Yes, well. Haven’t we been wading through and ignoring media lies for forty years? Don’t worry, dear.
Bubba -
I'm glad I saw your post before I went to the time and trouble of doing the math.
Badger -
Sorry, but Bubba's right. Warp speed is exponential. Warp 2 is twice as fast as warp one. Warp 3 is twice as fast as warp two....etc.
It's just one of those weird things you 'know' after watching Star Trek for 46 years. LOL!
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Those and 800 degrees cooler, no sulfuric acid rain, and 10 or so less atmospheres of surface pressure.
Not only would you enjoy all the comforts of upscale living, you and the other millions of fellow passengers would arrive within the week (assuming local displacement was within the ship's range).
If you were in a hurry, perhaps you could enlist the ship's avatar to request the services of a Superlifter and arrive within days ... if you were not bored by the vast ranges of entertainment aboard, and were not in a hurry, you might request to stop off an Orbital where you could do things like mountain climbing.
Those “Star Trek” vessels are so slow, small, cramped, generally limited, and awkward, why would any self-respecting traveler pick that form of travel?
Although why anyone would want to visit such backwaters like 667Cc, Kepler-22b, HD85512, Gliese 581d, and Gliese 581 is beyond me.
I've heard that the GSVs “Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The” (Plate Class), “Quietly Confident” (Plate Class), and the “Sleeper Service” (Plate Class) are in the neighborhood... perhaps they are going your way?
PS:
General Systems Vehicles (GSVs) are the Culture's largest type of ship, ranging between 25 km and 200 km in each dimension (including the fields protecting them and forming the exterior of their life-support system). GSVs which provide accommodation for biological members of the Culture generally have populations in the millions or even billions, and can be considered worlds in their own right.
System Class: (multiple separate components suspended in a force field up to 200 km long).
Plate Class: (53 km long, 22 km wide, 4 km thick, or, including fields, up to 90 km long, 60 km wide, 20 km thick).
If for some reason you suspect a spot of trouble, I suggest having the GSV: (System Class - Special Circumstances) “Hubris Knows No Bounds” (heavily militarized) along. and perhaps a Rapid Offensive Unit (Killer Class) along - just in case ...
As of right no, though, warp 5 will be simply 5 times the speed of light until further discoveries are made ...
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5 Lights per Year? Why go Star Trek when you could go Culture - ships routinely travel at 100 KiloLightsHour and the Sleeper Service (if avallible) does upto 223 KLH (faster with a tow from a Superlifter) ... Those Trek ships are such antiques.
What lore are you getting that from?
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
The State of the Art
Look to Windward
Matter
Also but not in the Culture universe (perhaps adjacent): The Algebraist.
Gonna read at least one of those. Thanks!
You are describing a geometric progression. Exponential is a factor of 10, not 2.
If Venus had a magnetic field and a large moon its atmosphere and temperature would be much different. How different is subject to speculation, but the drastic differences between Earth's and Venus' atmospheres and temperatures cannot be explained simply based on Venus' closer orbit.
If Earth did not have a magnetic field and a moon it would likely resemble Venus.
Let’s talk about the most important thing: Gliese is a terrible name! Who is going to want to explore a system that sounds like a medical condition? I suggest something more marketable, like Chaucer, Laurier, or Gallifrey.
Depends on how you pronounce it.
If you say ‘Glee-ess’ it sounds really exotic and beckoning.
But if you call it ‘Gleece’, it sounds like a Japanese comedian talking about a movie musical..........
“If you are going to travel through space, Q Continuum travel is the way to go. Instantaneous transportation to any point in time or space.”
Unfortuantely, that method is limited to the Q. Culture travel methods are for everyone else. In “Excession”, several Culture ships instantaneously travel to another Universe - something the Q cannot do.
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“If Venus had a magnetic field ...”
Albeit a weak one. But we are dealing in what is, not what might be. **If pigs could fly ...**
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