Re: FTL capable fighters (B5)

>> 2) doing the math the numbers don't quite work out right. In order to
move
>> 2 light months in 500 years the Epsilon Eridani system would have to
be
>> booking at a space velocity of ~61 miles/second.
>> 
>> 2 light months ~= 965,685,888,000 miles.
>> 
>> 31,557,600 seconds in a year
>> 
>> 500 years -> 15,778,800,000 seconds
>> 
>> 965,685,888,000/15,778,800,000 ~= 61 miles/second
>> 
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>Mark, you are scaring me....take a deep 
>breath....exhale......whewww...now, isn't that better??;-)

Sorry; I'm in research-mode this week (woo!) and the earlier post (oh,
geez,
now I can't remember who posted it!) kinda got me thinking...

:-}

Mk
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