On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:46:30AM +1000, Tom Sparks wrote:
> an example is earth to Mars is about 30 to 90 minutes delay (I don’t
> remember if that is for a round-trip)

Round trip Earth<->Mars is about 10-40 minutes depending on relative
orbital positions. Earth<->Jupiter is about 70-100 minutes.

X-boat round trip latency in Traveller would typically be on the order
of months.

Wouldn't that depend on whether or not you're transmitting between nodes (systems with multiple xboat links) and how many nodes away you're doing so? Subsector capital to neighboring subsector capital turnaround would be no more than six weeks or so. Right?

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