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[RFC] Drivetypes, and trying to put vague numbers at things.
 
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I mostly use this for some numbers on flight times: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/appmis ... sion_Table. The time is for a mission from Earth to planet X and back... so half it for just getting there.

1g roughly means 2 days from Earth to Mars. To get there within a reasonable "extra long car trip time" (6-8 hours), you would need an acceleration of ~ 50g (four times acceleration means half travel time).

1g would be a week to Jupiter and ~9 days to Saturn... 50g would make this one day to Jupiter and a few hours more to Saturn.
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