Chapter Four Is Now Available...

[Bob Schroeck]

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If you consider NASA's definition of the earth's athmosphere ending at 60 miles, and Doug reached it in 50 seconds...that's about 4320 mph..*whistles* That's hypersonic velocity..Mach 6! I'm surprised civilian or military radar didn't pick Doug up...unless his field spoofs radar.

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May I direct you to the Concordance?

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The Karman Line, considered to be the boundary beyond which is officially "outer space," is 100 kilometers or approximately 58 miles. At Mach 6 (about 4566 miles per hour and Doug's top atmospheric speed using "I Am A Pioneer", as seen in Chapter Six of DW2), Doug can reach the Karman Line in a hair under 46 seconds.

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So, yes, your math was quite correct.

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hmm maybe Doug is too small for the radar to pick up?

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Not exactly. His field deflects and reroutes radar around him; about the only thing that can consistantly track him, as Nene discovers in DW2, is LADAR (laser "radar") or anything else that uses purely optical frequencies. As far as radar is concerned, though, Sylia characterizes him as having "the radar silhouette of a sparrow" -- see DW2 Chapter 5.
(And now that I finish typing all that in, I see that Florin has already said it all. What the hell, I'll post it for the xrefs.)
-- Bob
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