Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

In a message dated 8/13/2001 5:53:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
yh728@victoria.tc.ca writes:

<< The only problem with this scale is that it would be impossible for
any FT
 ship to actually take off from nearly any planetary surface at all, if
 Thrust 8=1g. You'd need something impossible like Thrust 20 to take off
 from a 1g world... >>

Technically, you could take off straight up with a thrust of 8.0000~01
and 
eventually reach escape velocity. :o)

(It would just take forever and a LOT of fuel :o)