Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Frey HG (bolt451@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 20:31:21 JST Frey HG

   dammit, fallen into a rabbit hole of how gravity works on space ships. I was going to say, this ship is built like a sky scraper, lots of narrow floors, with the ships thrust pulling the crew to the floor, but then wouldn't acceleration be limited to 1 G? FFS

   #Writing #WritingCommunity

   • Embed this notice
     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 20:31:20 JST Charlie Stross

     in reply to

     @bolt451 1G acceleration isn't nothing! Sustained for
     24 hours, 1G gives you roughly 850km/sec, 0.2% of c, fast enough to travel directly from Earth orbit to Mars orbit in about a day. Keep it up for a month and you're moving at 6% of light speed. Keep it up for a year and you're getting into serious relativistic time dilation territory.

   • Embed this notice
     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 22:29:18 JST Charlie Stross

     in reply to

     @bolt451 This infographic might help? https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/5x7ept/a_little_graphic_i_made_showing_travel_times_and/?rdt=45283

   • Embed this notice
     Frey HG (bolt451@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 22:29:20 JST Frey HG

     in reply to

     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross Apologies if calling you Charlie comes across as overfamiliar btw

     Its not actually a hard sci-fi setting as such, this specific story is a romance but I wanted it to be vaguely feasible

   • Embed this notice
     Frey HG (bolt451@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 22:29:21 JST Frey HG

     in reply to

     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross that's good to know tbh id not crunched the numbers. For a large interplanetary ship not designed for manoeuvring, that's potentially doable.

     Thanks again Charlie 👍