Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Rusty Witherspoon (22 Feb 2018 06:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Evyn MacDude (23 Feb 2018 02:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Richard Aiken (26 Feb 2018 04:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Phil Pugliese (26 Feb 2018 22:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Richard Aiken (27 Feb 2018 01:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Rupert Boleyn (27 Feb 2018 10:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Richard Aiken (27 Feb 2018 23:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Rupert Boleyn (28 Feb 2018 01:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Phil Pugliese (01 Mar 2018 01:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Rupert Boleyn (01 Mar 2018 05:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind shadow@xxxxxx (02 Mar 2018 03:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Evyn MacDude (27 Feb 2018 05:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Evyn MacDude (27 Feb 2018 05:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind W. Hopper (27 Feb 2018 20:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Bruce Johnson (27 Feb 2018 22:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Richard Aiken (27 Feb 2018 23:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind shadow@xxxxxx (02 Mar 2018 03:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Caleuche (02 Mar 2018 04:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Richard Aiken (08 Mar 2018 09:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind W. Hopper (28 Feb 2018 03:51 UTC)

Re: [TML] Tech Question for the Hive Mind Rupert Boleyn 27 Feb 2018 10:03 UTC

On 27Feb2018 1431, Richard Aiken wrote:

> Not sure how they get that flight duration, by the way. A standard
> air/raft's top speed is ~62 mph. Even assuming that it's only going as far
> as Low Earth Orbit, that it can rise vertically the whole way and that it
> doesn't need to accelerate to orbital speed (since it "weighs" nothing at
> all), that's still a trip duration of ~19 hours from sea level on Earth.

Umm. At 62 mph (which in some editions of Traveller is much lower than
the maximum speed) it's only 2-3 hours to LEO. Also, at even 0.1G it
only takes 2-3 hours to make orbital speeds. The whole process therefore
probably takes about 5 hours, and the most difficult part would be
getting into the right place on the right orbit with the crappy
instruments air/rafts are generally assumed to have.

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