Hmelton wrote:
I've got a nitpick or two for your story.
...
I think you were thinking of acceleration and the "gee" forces it is often measured in instead of the wind pressure you get from
an open cockpit at a high airspeed.
I write:
Oh yes, thrust from whatever is taking her craft past escape velocity is giving her accerleration very much past 1 gravity. Hmm, how to make this clearer in
the text without going into f=ma . . . . Still your point is well taken.
Hmelton wrote:
This leads to your second possible problem or nitpick, DISTANCE and travel time.
Nemesis is a hypothetical planet out beyond pluto so you must be talking about orbits that can be measured in light hours.
This literally means that it takes sunlight just over 6.83 hours to reach pluto's orbit and starting from Earth's orbit which only takes 93,000,000
miles off the trip. That by the way only knocks just under 500 seconds off those nearly 7 hours of travel time for the light beam.
I write:
The hypothetical Nemesis (as opposed to the asteroid) is, at least according to wikipedia, a companion brown dwarf star found somewhere in the oort cloud.
Sailor Moon's Nemesis is not a star but rather a huge rock in space that does resemble a rather smoothened asteroid. However it is consistently mentioned
being a planet, despite being the home of the Black Moon Clan as well as not being rounded by its own gravity, a criterion for planet status. So for my story
anyway it's a planet which holds its idiosyncratic shape due to the once-presence of . . . i dunno, black magic, or the black crystal, or the death phantom
or whatever. You'll note that while I mention the planet Pluto, I don't mention Eris.
As for the travel time etc., the fact that it only takes her a few hours to get to transneptunian space does make it seem that the Swan is either just slightly
faster than light or at least not that slower than light without having to go through all that hyperspace, subspace, jump, fold, etc. How that happens? I
dunno . . . . magical alcubierre drive? At this point in the plot it doesn't really matter. When it does make a difference, I'll probably come up
with something. Nothing really prevents me from having Usagi's "takes a few hours to get to transneptunian space" AND "teleports across
galaxies instantly" tech/magic.
It's something to keep in mind, though.
Thanks for the comments.
-murmur
I've got a nitpick or two for your story.
...
I think you were thinking of acceleration and the "gee" forces it is often measured in instead of the wind pressure you get from
an open cockpit at a high airspeed.
I write:
Oh yes, thrust from whatever is taking her craft past escape velocity is giving her accerleration very much past 1 gravity. Hmm, how to make this clearer in
the text without going into f=ma . . . . Still your point is well taken.
Hmelton wrote:
This leads to your second possible problem or nitpick, DISTANCE and travel time.
Nemesis is a hypothetical planet out beyond pluto so you must be talking about orbits that can be measured in light hours.
This literally means that it takes sunlight just over 6.83 hours to reach pluto's orbit and starting from Earth's orbit which only takes 93,000,000
miles off the trip. That by the way only knocks just under 500 seconds off those nearly 7 hours of travel time for the light beam.
I write:
The hypothetical Nemesis (as opposed to the asteroid) is, at least according to wikipedia, a companion brown dwarf star found somewhere in the oort cloud.
Sailor Moon's Nemesis is not a star but rather a huge rock in space that does resemble a rather smoothened asteroid. However it is consistently mentioned
being a planet, despite being the home of the Black Moon Clan as well as not being rounded by its own gravity, a criterion for planet status. So for my story
anyway it's a planet which holds its idiosyncratic shape due to the once-presence of . . . i dunno, black magic, or the black crystal, or the death phantom
or whatever. You'll note that while I mention the planet Pluto, I don't mention Eris.
As for the travel time etc., the fact that it only takes her a few hours to get to transneptunian space does make it seem that the Swan is either just slightly
faster than light or at least not that slower than light without having to go through all that hyperspace, subspace, jump, fold, etc. How that happens? I
dunno . . . . magical alcubierre drive? At this point in the plot it doesn't really matter. When it does make a difference, I'll probably come up
with something. Nothing really prevents me from having Usagi's "takes a few hours to get to transneptunian space" AND "teleports across
galaxies instantly" tech/magic.
It's something to keep in mind, though.
Thanks for the comments.
-murmur