Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 9:25 AM -0400 8/7/01, Jerry Acord wrote:
>
>Let me de-lurk long enough to say that the Sun will become a red giant
once
>its hydrogen supply is essentially exhausted -- and that red giant
won't
>mysteriously suddenly get more massive.  As for the radius, figures
vary but
>most likely the Earth and maybe Mars would be "swallowed" by the
expanding
>solar surface.  Perhaps the 5.64 LM figure is distance from the
surface, and
>not center?

I always understood that Earth was going to be uncomfortably close to 
the surface and that Venus was going to get baked to a cinder. 
Mercury would end up inside.

>
>A note on spectral type and mass: G2 is spectral type, dwarf/Main
Sequence
>(V) in combination with G2 gives you the mass, so saying G2 V gives you
>both...  Admittedly, "red giant" is a somewhat nebulous (!) term and
could
>imply something more massive than what the Sun will become (but not
much
>more!).

Red Giant, Red Super Giant? which ever I guess. I think that Weber 
was being a bit nebulous. He does have that semi-automatic lever 
action in March Upcountry...

>Maybe one solar mass concentrated into a G2 V star warps spacetime much
more
>"steeply" than that same solar mass distributed over the larger volume
of a
>red giant, making an FTL jump more difficult close to the G2V than it
is
>close to the red giant...?

But does the orbital ummmmm retention (?) stay the same? ie do the 
planets orbits alter at all? If not then the gravity well doesn't 
change.

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