ATTN JMS Excalibur speed question (spoilers)

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From: "Paul Mcelligott" <plmcelligott at earthlink.net>
Date: 10 Jun 2000 12:27:52 -0600
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Well, when you've got the Minbari and the Vorlons helping with the design,
little problems like that kind of get taken care of.

"TBrush1090" <tbrush1090 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000608171401.21209.00001602 at ng-ft1.aol.com...
> Hello, Joe.
>
> Thank you again for making your CRUSADE scripts "To the Ends of the Earth"
and
> "The End of the Game" available to us via www.bookface.com.  Please
consider
> allowing hard copies to be released.
>
> Have a question for you regarding the speeds the Excalibur starship is
capable
> of.  In "Earth," Lt. Matheson has a line that the Excalibur is moving at
its
> top sublight velocity, point seven five percent of lightspeed.  Now, 0.75%
C is
> approximately 1,397 miles per second.  On the other hand, seventy five
percent
> of lightspeed is about 139,713 miles per second.
>
> I was wondering about the possibility of mathematical or typographical
errors
> and which figure should be considered correct.
>
> Just from a science point of view, the difficulties that a starship would
> encounter traveling at three quarters the speed of light would
> be...considerable.  Starlight approaching the ship would be so
blue-shifted
> from the vessel's forward motion that the ship would be lashed with deadly
> radiation, and a collision with the smallest particle of space dust would
> produce damage greater than the hugest H-bomb ever detonated.  Of course,
if
> the ship is equipped with really, really primo radiation shields and has a
> point defense system accurate enough to zap individual particles of space
dust
> in its path, then these factors present little problem <g.>
>
> Thank you for making the B5 and Crusade universes such fascinating places.
>
> ta
> tsb
>
> "The sleeper dreams oblivion"
> Taelon scientist Rho-ha
> "Pandora's Box"
> Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict
>
>



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 11 Jun 2000 16:06:46 -0600
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The Excalibur accellerates at roughly the speed of plot.

 jms

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