Quote:Closer to 6 actually an AU is ~ 7.2 light hours, so lets split the difference and call it 11 hours of travel.
At lightspeed, this would take about 5 hours to travel. If the typical speed is 50% then it would take 10 hours to cover this distance.
Quote:Yeah, but it shouldn't be too much longer. I'd sugest that for small cars (Honda civic and smaller) the top speed is around 0.1 c, so in the worts case it takes about 4 hours to mars, and 55 hours to The Limit
Mars is between 0.5 and 2.5 AU away from the Earth. This would take from 7 minutes to 35 minutes to travel a 50% lightspeed. Now that I work that out, that's just too little time.
For larger cars (SUVs etc) I would put the limit at around 0.05 c, and for winbagos, ships and airplanes at 0.025 c and lower depending on size.
the Sol Bianca is one of the fastest ships in her size class by being able to go 1% of light speed, or roughly a tenth of the speed of a small car, meaning it would take me about a day ( from to 34 hours to travel to mars from earth, and it takes me about a month to reach the limit (~24 days)
Now these numbers are top speeds of the fastest examples out there (wich are probably going to be mostly owned by the PC's), lets say that most people are going at about half that speed.
I think those speeds are far more reasonable than either of the two extremes.
Also the handwavium engines determine max speed relative to the nearest large mass, and they deal with speed as opposed to acceleration, which you get from traditional rocket engines. I think this is an important distinction to make, since it makes the things becahve far more like we are used to and less like astrophysisicts are used to.
What do people think of these revised numbers?
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