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Kaiidyn
Caldari
Veldspar International
Imperial Defense Coalition
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Posted - 2009.04.16 19:33:00 -
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Edited by: Kaiidyn on 16/04/2009 19:36:14
As another mesure unit, Light-Years (LY)
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year
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A light-year is equal to:
exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (about 10 Pm)
about 5,878,630,000,000 international miles
about 63,241.1 astronomical units
about 0.306601 parsecs
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Syreniac
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Posted - 2009.04.16 19:41:00 -
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and what would this measure?
Most solar systems are much smaller than even one light year, and capital jumping is already measured in light years
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Kaiidyn
Caldari
Veldspar International
Imperial Defense Coalition
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Posted - 2009.04.16 19:45:00 -
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Distance between systems shown at a stargate.
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Bibbleibble
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Posted - 2009.04.16 19:53:00 -
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Edited by: Bibbleibble on 16/04/2009 19:55:59
I am actually surprised that CCP hasn't done this already! 
I think this would be quite interesting, if not entirely necessary.
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Neo Omni
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.04.16 20:30:00 -
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Edited by: Neo Omni on 16/04/2009 20:31:32
EVE uses AU:
1 Astronomical Unit = 149 598 000 kilometers
info:
The distances are approximate mean distances. It has to be taken into consideration that the distances between celestial bodies change in time due to their orbits and other factors.
* The Earth is 1.00 ¦ 0.02 AU from the Sun.
* The Moon is 0.0026 ¦ 0.0001 AU from the Earth.
* Mars is 1.52 ¦ 0.14 AU from the Sun.
* Jupiter is 5.20 ¦ 0.05 AU from the Sun.
* Pluto is 39.5 ¦ 9.8 AU from the Sun.
* The Kuiper Belt begins at roughly 35 AU
* Beginning of Scattered disk at 45 AU (10 AU overlap with Kuiper Belt)
* Ending of Kuiper Belt at 50-55 AU
* 90377 Sedna's orbit ranges between 76 and 942 AU from the Sun; Sedna is currently (as of 2006[update]) about 90 AU from the Sun.
* 94 AU: Termination shock between Solar winds/Interstellar winds/Interstellar medium.
* 100 AU: Heliosheath
* 108 AU: As of November 16, 2008, Voyager 1 is the furthest of any human-made objects from the Sun.
* 100-150 AU: Ending of Scattered Disc
* 500-3000 AU: Beginning of Hills cloud/"Inner Oort Cloud"
* 20,000 AU: Ending of Hills Cloud/"Inner Oort Cloud", beginning of "Outer Oort Cloud"
* 50,000 AU: possible closest estimate of the "Outer Oort Cloud" limits (0.8 ly)
* 100,000 AU: possible farthest estimate of the "Outer Oort Cloud" limits (1.6 ly).
* 125,000 AU: maximum extent of influence of the Sun's gravitational field (Hill/Roche sphere). beyond this is true interstellar space. This distance is roughly 1.8-2.0 light-years.
* Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to Earth, excluding our own Sun) is ~268 000 AU away from the Sun.
* The mean diameter of Betelgeuse is 2.57 AU.
* The distance from the Sun to the centre of the Milky Way is approximately 1.7 + 109 AU.
Some conversion factors:
* 1 AU = 149,597,870.691 ¦ 0.030 km ≈ 92,955,807 mi ≈ 8.317 light minutes ≈ 499 light-seconds
* 1 light-second ≈ 0.002 AU
* 1 gigametre ≈ 0.007 AU
* 1 light-minute ≈ 0.120 AU
* 1 microparsec ≈ 0.206 AU
* 1 terametre ≈ 6.685 AU
* 1 light-hour ≈ 7.214 AU
* 1 light-day ≈ 173.263 AU
* 1 milliparsec ≈ 206.265 AU
* 1 light-week ≈ 1,212.84 AU
* 1 light-month ≈ 5,197.9 AU
* 1 light-year ≈ 63,241 AU
* 1 parsec ≈ 206,265 AU
Using light year as a standard in EVE would involve too many fractions.
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NightF0x
Gallente
Intergalactic League of Terrorists
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Posted - 2009.04.16 22:25:00 -
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There's nothing in Eve that is even far enough to amount to 1 light year, except maybe across the entire Eve map. AU's are a good measurement that has meaning and people can actually visualize
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Nnamuachs
Caldari
Kiith Paktu
Veneratio Venator Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.16 22:31:00 -
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distances between solar systems are measured in lightyears, thats how the distance capitals can jump is measured
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Sir Substance
Minmatar
MagiTech Alliance Inc.
MagiTech Corp
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Posted - 2009.04.17 00:53:00 -
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if i remember correctly, its about 40 lightyears from one side of the eve map to the other. were the eve star map about 10 times the size, i might advocate the use of lightyears as a measure.
as it stands right now, with a map so small relative to the size of a liughtyear, its a bit pointless. like measuring the size of a city block in kilometers squared.
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Hariya
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Posted - 2009.04.17 16:32:00 -
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Originally by: Syreniac
and what would this measure?
My awesomeness. 
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DustinTheWind1
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Posted - 2009.06.04 02:35:00 -
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Originally by: Kaiidyn
Distance between systems shown at a stargate.
is this true? hmm so maybe the jump bridges don't show the distance in light years of the jump but maybe the jump gates do. Ill have to check that out.
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