On 07/07/15 13:09, Richard Aiken wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net
> <mailto:xxxxxx@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?
the xboats would communicate while in local space around a colony or
while in radio/light range of another xboat

>
> Richard Aiken
>
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