From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #258 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/258 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 258 Today's Topics: [B7L] Heads up for bargain hunters [B7L] Fw: Ironies Re [B7L] Spacials RE: Re [B7L] Spacials Re: Re [B7L] Spacials Re: [B7L] Trial summary ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:45:27 EDT From: Bizarro7@aol.com To: freedom-city@blakes-7.org, Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Heads up for bargain hunters Message-ID: <23144f93.24fc6387@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Annie found a way to make it easier for all of you to link into the eBay auction of items from her B7 collection. You can either click on the link here eBay View About Me for ashton7 or else type in: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/ashton7 I'm relaying this message from Annie: Leah and I have begun the somewhat arduous, but also interesting, task of cleaning out our extensive collections of fannish memorbilia. We have a fairly large house but, quite frankly, the books and photos and posters and the like are taking things over! So, we're going to be spending the next few months doing a "spring" cleaning, so to speak. Both of us have been collecting fannish photos, magazines, posters and all sorts of "stuff" for over twenty years. Many of these items were well-loved in their day, but now they sit in albums or closets or drawers and are sadly not enjoyed. Accordingly, we decided it was time to send them along to new homes. I've begun scanning and posting these items to E-bay. Most of the minimum bids are absurdly low ($1.00-$5.00) and I'm quite happy if they sell at even the minimum bid. We will be adding to the postings probably on a daily basis for some time to come. The fandoms currently represented on E-Bay are Highlander, X-Files, Blakes 7, Babylon 5, Magnum PI, Lethal Weapon, Buffy, Rat Patrol, tons of Harrison Ford pic and magazines (many of them very rare and hard to find), Alias Smith & Jones, Forever Knight, A-Team, S.W.A.T. and much more to come, including Beauty & the Beast, Robin of Sherwood (drop dead goregous shots of Michael Praed), Clint Eastwood, various Western fandoms, Man from UNCLE, V, and much more. If you think you might be interested, you can go to the link below to view all of the currently active auctions. If you need the URL for a direct link, it is: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/ashton7 If you aren't interested, well, sorry for taking up your time! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:49:26 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "lysator" Subject: [B7L] Fw: Ironies Message-ID: <003201bef33a$03a12de0$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, I'm forwarding this for Leah, Alison >The final episode of the truncated season of BABYLON 5: CRUSADE will be >airing this week. Some of you will recall that this series was JMS's 'homage' >to BLAKES 7. The network that was funding the series told him to add all >sorts of ridiculous elements to the show so they could use it as a lead-in >booster for their other popular programmes, and JMS responded by choosing to >discontinue the show rather than compromise its quality. This is a shame, as >it was getting quite excellent and we were growing fond of some of the >characters (many of whom were deliberately adapted from B7). > >The irony comes from the way things worked out. The trunicated season left >CRUSADE with a grand total of...13 episodes. > >Leah ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:01:55 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re [B7L] Spacials Message-ID: <000f01bef3e4$475505c0$4716ac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've recently been banging my hea against a wall trying to calculate a workable value for a spacial. (When that didn't work, I tried sitting down and thinking about it, but ended up banging my head against a wall again.) Has anyone had a go at this thorny little problem? If so, what results did you get? The main problem I've encountered is resolving the stated detector range of Federation pursuit ships (two million spacials) with Liberator's standard orbital altitude (1000 spacials). You either get a value so low that the Feds pick up the Liberator when its milliseconds away, or so high that Liberator can park outside the solar system while the crew teleport down. Ideally, you need a canonical reference to a situation where range (in spacials), journey time, and ship speed are all given. I can't think of any such case - there are several that give two of these three vital criteria, but two ain't good enough. All thoughts welcome. Neil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:04:14 +0200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen To: lysator Subject: RE: Re [B7L] Spacials Message-ID: <39DCDDFD014ED21185C300104BB3F99F655A89@NL-ARN-MAIL01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Neil said: > The main problem I've encountered is resolving the stated > detector range of > Federation pursuit ships (two million spacials) with > Liberator's standard > orbital altitude (1000 spacials). You either get a value so > low that the > Feds pick up the Liberator when its milliseconds away, or so high that > Liberator can park outside the solar system while the crew > teleport down. I don't know a whole lot about physics, (never got past basic bullet trajectories in high school) but does this unit have to be something absolute like light-years or kilometers? I mean, they're usually travelling faster than light, so couldn't they be using a unit for distance that depends on how fast you're going relative to the pursuit ships or the planet or whatever they happen to be talking about? If such a thing is practical, it would explain why a spacial seems to be less when they're in orbit than when they're followed by pursuit ships. And even when they are in orbit, the pursuit ships must still move very quickly relative to them, while the planet isn't, so there would still be a difference. Someone please tell me if this is crap? Jacqueline ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:12:03 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: Re [B7L] Spacials Message-ID: <001e01bef3ed$3157f800$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil said - >All thoughts welcome. I'm certainly the last person to sit down and work this out, but here's a thought. Why should a spacial be an absolute measurement? For example spacials may be calculated with reference to the arc they make in relation to the point in space where you are and therefore expand in size the further away the measured distance is from that point. Or perhaps time-distort drive means you can travel faster the further away you are from a gravitational source, so a spacial represents the distance you can move in time T at maximum possible speed. Or perhaps a spacial represents a wodge of space-time that grows and shrinks according to how fast you are moving. (stop me if I'm getting too technical :-) Alison PS I always want to write spatial - I've had to go through and change it throughout ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:18:07 EDT From: Tigerm1019@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Trial summary Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This was great, Joanne.:-) Thanks for posting it. 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