Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

Actually, it takes light almost 8 minutes and 20 seconds -- to reach the
Earth
from the Sun.
--That puts Earth to Pluto about 5 hours, 32 minutes, 48 seconds -- at
their
closest approaches.

"Space is big...."

Donald Hosford

Ryan Gill wrote:

> At 7:02 PM -0500 8/6/01, David Rodemaker wrote:
>

snippage!

> >You may want to give some thought to C&C ala SFB...
>
> Well, the overall com signals are whisker thin lasers. I'm shying
> away from the gravitic pulse comms stuff for now. (perhaps the Grav
> Drive Aliens would use it?) This isn't a big deal as it only takes 7
> seconds for light to travel 1 AU...or something like that. So at the
> extreme range of the edge of the system you're talking about
> something like 16 minutes max.
>

snippage!

> >
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