Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....
Jeffrey Schwartz 19 May 2016 17:47 UTC
I wouldn't think so.
I am curious though.... what would the subjective jump duration be?
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could one jump a J-1 ship two parsecs by accelerating to a velocity with
> tau=0.5 in its direction before jumping?
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>> On 19 May 2016 at 20:40, Tim wrote:
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>> > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:27:46AM -0700, (via tml list) wrote:
>> > > I have trouble with that "relative to the planet bit, given that
>> > > said location isn't fixed.
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>> > It's as fixed as anything else is. Certainly your interpretation
>> > suffers from the same flaw.
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>> How? I'm sayinng that you are "targetting" a specific distance in a
>> specfic direction. And that the variance in exit location is
>> variance from that distance/angle.
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>> that's not "relative" to anything except the departure point.
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>> The other interpretation has you somehow having a base exit point
>> that is in different places depending on the duration of the jump.
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