RE: Need Physics Help!

First - Mikko, thanks for the suggestions - I lost your email.
Second, at 7500 km/MU, Terra is about 2 inches wide (12,9xx km dia.) and

Jupiter is 10 inches (71,000 kmdia.)?  Does that sound about right? 
That 
is actually starting to sound better & better- I would like to have gas 
giants on-table, and I have been balking at the idea of apinting a 13" 
sphere into a good-looking Terra-type planet.  But with 7500km/MU, your 
railguns & Pulse Torpedoes had better have some real oomph to them - you

need a lot of velocity to make up for those distances.	Maybe gravitic 
accel?	You could far outdistance EM accel that way.  And with the
inertial 
compensation that would entail, you could orbit however you wanted.

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	Richard Slattery [SMTP:richard@mgkc.demon.co.uk]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 15, 1998 06:33 PM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Need Physics Help!

On 15 Jul 98 at 22:27, Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:

> Oh, I forgot to mention: If you have thrust anywhere near the levels
> needed for FT style combat manuevers, planetary gravitation becomes
> a non-issue -- it's effect is about the same as a small rounding
> error.

. you may have missed an earlier thread...

Taking the 15 minute turn/1,000km per move unit scale, full thrust
ships have a puny thrust of a 1/4g to 1/8g per thrust point, so
gravity really sucks. <yes! I worked that pun in at last>
Of course, if you change the scales it changes everything. I'm
heading for 7,500km per move unit to give about 1g per thrust point.
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