Re:

Renleg predates this by more than just a bit. But if enough people 
invent fictional FTL drives then someone is going to come pretty close 
to the "real thing".

Brian Bilderback wrote:

>> If you check out the full paper, it has a bit of math to get through,

>> but
>> on page 7 there are two equations that give the time from outside the

>> warp
>> bubble (capital T) and from inside (tau) to go some distance D 
>> between two
>> star systems.
>
>
> I wonder if this is where FASA got the idea of "Tau" for FTL in 
> RenLeg.....