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Mar. 4th, 2007
Just how fast is the FTL in that universe? We know it's not tremendously fast [1], because it takes years for one character to make it part way to the core of the galaxy. On the other hand, it's fast enough for humans to have reached and settled at least one thousand terrestrial worlds and I think it's strongly implied that to get from Sol to the upper edge of the galactic disk takes only years.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
Just how fast is the FTL in that universe? We know it's not tremendously fast [1], because it takes years for one character to make it part way to the core of the galaxy. On the other hand, it's fast enough for humans to have reached and settled at least one thousand terrestrial worlds and I think it's strongly implied that to get from Sol to the upper edge of the galactic disk takes only years.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
Just how fast is the FTL in that universe? We know it's not tremendously fast [1], because it takes years for one character to make it part way to the core of the galaxy. On the other hand, it's fast enough for humans to have reached and settled at least one thousand terrestrial worlds and I think it's strongly implied that to get from Sol to the upper edge of the galactic disk takes only years.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
Does hundreds of times the speed of light seem like a good fix for what we see? 500 C would put the core about half a century away (if one never stopped) but it would make the edges of the disk only a few years away (In either direction: Sol is surprisingly close to the galactic plane, just 67 light years north). If 3000 ly is the effective maximum radius of civilization clusters, then there's room for hundreds of such regions, which matches what we see.
1: I think DYING OF THE LIGHT has a passing comment about there being many ways to go faster than light but all of them are slow.
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Mar. 4th, 2007 04:32 pmFormer U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton dies at 77
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
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Mar. 4th, 2007 04:32 pmFormer U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton dies at 77
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
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Mar. 4th, 2007 04:32 pmFormer U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton dies at 77
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
Thomas Eagleton's wikipedia entry. I had no idea he had once been unsuccessfully blackmailed by alleged Scientologists.
