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Mishallia Venari
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Posted - 2008.12.10 11:56:00 -
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OK, im officially freaked out now.  I sat and worked out very similar things yesterday (slow day in the office) just to see what sort of figures i came up with, then this thread appears.
I started on the idea that unexplored systems would need to be reached using standard travel methods such as warp drive, not jump gates. so i worked on using a recon (perfect ship for er, recon work?) and at 3.8 au/sec i worked out a warp speed of around 1900c which agrees with the above.
Travel to the system would involve lower than top speeds due to cap sustainability and stress on the drive systems. Say a long range warp speed of 50%. Even that worked out to be around 6 days to move 12ly.
Mish
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Mishallia Venari
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Posted - 2008.12.10 13:17:00 -
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Ok, lets put this to bed shall we.
1AU (Awesomeness Unit) is agreed internationally as 149,597,871 ¦ 0.030 Km (Kill Mails)
So traveling at reletivistic velocities, ie those approaching C (Cake) (Come one, lets face it. Cake approach speeds are pretty impressive, especially if its fresh cake) we are moving at close to 2243968065 Kill Mails per second or The total gennocide of the entire eve cluster in 0.0001 seconds.
As we know this to not be the case (we dont die every 1/10000th of a second) speeds must be slower and the numbers must simply be made up.
Considering the fine work of the esteemed Professor Doughnut earlier in the thread i would be inclined now, to agree with the slower speeds of our internet spaceships. Further refinement of his work using stop watches, tape measures and trundle wheels would suggest a speed of 1250 furlongs per fortnight ¦ 47 chains.
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Mishallia Venari
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Posted - 2008.12.10 14:14:00 -
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 Originally by: Janu Hull
Originally by: Stubek
This thread doesn't take into account navigational issues.
Plowing through uncharted space at several thousand times the speed of light isn't exactly the safest pass-time in the world. To paraphrase; burrowing through the core of a star at cruise speed would end your inter-system warp right quick and in a hurry. 
At 7000 times the speed of light, you'd be through the star before your eyes registered brightness, to say nothing of feeling heat.
Sigh. missed my point totally :(
moving at 7000 times the speed of light, or 3877938120000 AU/h would mean you were so utterly awesome that a star would simply GTFO your way for fear of being annihilated.
Of course this would never happen due to the Awesomeness being so high, that you would never accidentally encounter any object you didnt intend to find. Reasoning this out further, if one were to attain the theroetical maximun level of awesomeness (approx 47.36Au/s measured on and awesomometer calibrafed in a null fail field) one could simply find Jove space and all the T2 BPO's in a single trip by arbitrarilly pointing their ship in a random direction and hitting the loud pedal.
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Mishallia Venari
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Posted - 2008.12.10 14:22:00 -
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Edited by: Mishallia Venari on 10/12/2008 14:23:17
Fact, there will be down time
Theory, The server will be back up on time
Skeptisism, not believing that theory.
Optimism, Poasting a thread now saying 'INCOMPATIBLE PROTOCOL, OMG OMG the sky if falling'
Mish
Edit : dyslexic fingers
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