Re: FTJava: Game1345 Completed

["Robert Doughty" <rdoughty@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wait, Indy is a NASA guy?  What are you working on, and where?

On Nov 8, 2007 3:42 PM, Laserlight <laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Indy said:
> > It is a flexible system, and the numbers I cite there are not official. I
> > think laserlight or someone calculated these out assuming 1 thrust = 1g of
> > acceleration. So you can PSB it away for different scales. :-)
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> the thought of a NASA guy relying on my calculations....
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> Depending on your assumptions, I figured 7.5 min for 1000km, or something
> like 90 seconds for 100km. This is going by memory because I'm too lazy to
> find t where d =1/2 a t^2 where d = 100,000m, a = 10m/sec.
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