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Re: Weapon Modelling

From: Randall Joiner <rljoiner@m...>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:12:42 -0700
Subject: Re: Weapon Modelling

Hate to reply to myself, but realized I hadn't fixed my time travel 
problem...  Fixed now.	:)  (Thanks to everyone who pointed it out to
me!)

At 10:42 PM 6/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I could be wrong, but for some reason I'm remembering a rule from the 
>books that human vessels are locked at a maximum thrust rating...  I
wanna 
>say 8?
>
>Is this just my bad memory, or does anyone else remember this?
>
>Rand.
>
>
>At 09:42 PM 6/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> > We need some simplifying assumptions,or we need to account for
>>targetting aspects, so I simply assumed that all spacecraft are
>>spheres.  As for the range of values, we probably only want half of
>>mass^(2/3), so mass 3 to mass 250 has ranges from 1 to 20.  For the
>>thrust adjustment, the maximum reasonable thrust is 12.
>>
>>There are surveillance cutters with thrust 13-16 out there.
>


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