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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 99 : Issue 260

Today's Topics:
	 [B7L] Re: Forbidden Plant
	 [B7L] Re [ B7L] Spacials

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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:15:45 +0100
From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@mcr1.poptel.org.uk>
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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

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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:57:34 +0100
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
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Subject: [B7L] Re [ B7L] Spacials
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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

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