From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #260 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: <blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se> archive/volume99/260 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 260 Today's Topics: [B7L] Re: Forbidden Plant [B7L] Re [ B7L] Spacials ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:15:45 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Forbidden Plant Message-ID: <37CE2420.3ADF6B8A@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil asked: "I wouldn't mind knowing what colour flowers a Forbidden Plant has" Yellow, with green dots. And Judith asked: "Is that a new breed of triffid?" If you keep it in a pot and teach it not to spit, fine. Otherwise... -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Be inconsistent, but not all the time ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:57:34 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net> To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: [B7L] Re [ B7L] Spacials Message-ID: <000b01bef5f0$4cd2eb80$5014ac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jacqueline wrote: <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?> and Alison wrote: <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.> I did consider ideas like this, but the calculations get a bit hard on the fingers. Also if range is relative to speed, that could interfere with tactical decisions. Blake: 'How far away are those pursuit ships?' Jenna: 'One million spacials.' Blake: 'Right. Er ... how fast are we going?' And if a spacial represents time rather than distance, why not just use time units? Still, with all those battle computers to do all the fiddly calculations, such problems might not amount to much. I'll have to mull over this. Neil -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #260 **************************************