Re: [FTFB] Not ships, exactally. . .

On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, John M. Atkinson wrote:

> I go with the reactionless drives in the background--I strongly prefer
> to have space travel be feasible as a commercial enterprise without
> generation ships.  I havn't worked out the exact scales I'm using, but
1
> turn is going to be fairly short.  Perhaps a minute, which would give
me
> 1 Thrust is 1G and 1MU is 1000km.

Yeah reactionless drives are great - lugging around fuel (and having to
worry about refueling) is a bear.  BTW, if I do the math right, for 1
thrust = 1 g and 1 MU = 1000 km, I get that you need about 7 1/2 minute
turns.	That works pretty well with Dirtside, as well.	Didn't someone
suggest those scales a while back?  I can't recall..  As you point out,
it
all depends on what genre you want to use (and how close to reality you
want to stay).

TTYL..
Keith