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Re: Transit Time to Mars
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:40:31 GMT
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 07:38:47 GMT, Ben Olmstead/BEM
<bem@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
> 1 - Larry Niven, arguably the best SF author ever. Discounting Clarke,
> Card, Gibson, Herbert, Asimov, Adams, and Stephensen, who are also all
> arguably the best SF author ever (well, I despise Gibson, but hey).
> Wrote hard Sci-Fi, though--he based pretty much everything in science
> fact.
This is my cue to chant "The ringworld is unstable! the ringworld is
unstable!", right?
Jasper
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| (...) Of course, when you're going *that* far, you also have to count relativistic effects. Is '1g of acceleration' from the frame of the guy on the rocket, of the frame of the guy on Earth? (Important difference...) And then you have to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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