Re: [GZG] How fast is FTL in GZGverse?

Indy wrote on 05/13/2008 10:49:35 AM:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
wrote:
> Fuzzy max 1 yr round trip to Barnard's Star, just under six light
years,
> from FTII.
>
> '2063 The first trans-solar probe is launched to (and returns from)
> Barnard's Star.'
>
> Gotta be careful with those year cited events. Many, if not most, take
place
> in less than a year's time. Example from history:
>
> 1927: Charles Lindbergh makes first successful transatlantic flight
>
> The naive might interpret that it takes a year to fly across the
Atlantic. :-D

Ok, that was done a bit tongue-in-cheek, but no one here could be called
'naive'... *cough*

>
> The Lafayette campaign rules from the same book have six light years
of
FTL
> movement per week.
>
> Which is almost a lightyear a day.

Yep, though I wasn't going to say 'now we know where you got your
estimation...' ;->=

> Did I win?
>
> Probably, since no one else came up with these yet. ;-)   I don't know
what
> Tomb has for you for a prize, though.

Having seen the humor he can show at an ECC, I can only live in dread.

> The_Beast?
> You're not certain? ;-)

Weird! There's no '?' there in my copy in my out-box. No uncertainty at
all!

>
> Mk

THE_BEAST

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