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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.04 12:54:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 04/01/2005 13:30:31
1 AU = 8 lightminutes
Speed : 6 AU/s (48 lightminutes/s)
Distance : 100 000 lightyears
1 lightyear => 365*24*60 => 525600 lightminutes
525600/48 = 10950 seconds
= 182.5 minutes
= 3.04166666666666666666666666 hours
3.04166 hours for 1 lightyear, so 304166 hours for 100000 lightyears.
304166/24/365 = 34.722 years
At least it makes more sense than the 1st result I got when I forgot to multiply by 100k 
I've found and corrected about 3 errors I made so far, there might still be some more 
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.04 13:13:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 04/01/2005 13:22:52
 Originally by: Hastrabull
897 587 214.618 km/s / 300 000 km/s = 2991 ly/s ??? (ly = light years)
As some have already pointed out, you're not actually calculating the lightyears/second speed here.
Your speed : 897 587 214.618 km/s
Light Speed : 300 000 km/s
1 light year is 300000*60*60*24*365 = 9460800000000 km
9460800000000/897587214.618 = 10540 seconds for each lightyear you travel, or 2.903 hours per lightyear. Multiply that by 100k and you want stargates 
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.04 13:26:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 04/01/2005 13:32:57
Originally by: CmdrRat
Funny how everyone gets thier own answer, but they are all REALLY REALLY big.
Yeah it's giving me a headache, I'm trying to figure out which ones of us that made errors and where - not an easy task, it was ages ago I did math.
(Edit : After correcting an error in my math, adjusting it down from 300 years to 30, I think we have 3 ppl with the right answer, just with different starting values or something, since the results are kinda close to each other).
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.04 13:46:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 04/01/2005 13:49:48
Originally by: Omniscience
100 000 light years is 365 * 24 * 60 = 12 806 244 000 light minutes.
I get : 100000*365*24*60 = 52560000000 lightminutes
Which would result in :
1095000000 s of travel
or 18250000 minutes
or 304166.66666666666666666666666667 hours
or 12673.611111111111111111111111111 days
or 34.722222222222222222222222222222 years
12 806 244 000/365/24/60 = 24365, some garbage left in the calculator perhaps?
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.04 14:30:00 -
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Originally by: Der Ewige
If we please cold agree on the SI standart units and calculate in meters and seconds.
Yeah it's a bit confusing that a lightyear is a distance.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.05 13:05:00 -
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I did some more calculations :
Closest Star : Proxima Centauri, Centaurus constellation
Distance : 4.2 lightyears
From the previous calculations I made, 1 lightyear would take 3.04166 hours to travel.
3.04166 * 4.2 = 12.774972
So it'd be possible to get to the closest star in less than a day. Still not very playable though...
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.05 13:31:00 -
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Originally by: Gallentia Walmart
Add to this the time dilation experienced when travelling at speeds close to the speed of light and you would find that when you got to your destination you would be 3426.76 years older than everyone was there when you left.
All calculations I've made assume that standard newtonian physics apply, which we know isn't the case but it's still close enough when assuming that you're travelling at speeds faster than what is believed to be possible at all.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.05 14:01:00 -
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Originally by: Rico Steel
So he could freeze people/animals, successfully revive them, but then the person ends up dying days/weeks/months later due to the person aging quickly.
If we ever invent cryo chambers then we need to prevent it....
Actually I don't think that'd be a real problem, the main problem would be aging while sleeping I think. Movies aren't always right about scientific facts you know 
Originally by: Andrue
Nitpicking:Closest star is 1AU from Earth
Whatever
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