On Wednesday, May 2, 2007, at 04:25 AM, DataPacRat wrote:
On 02/05/07, Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After some further fiddling, I arrive at these numbers: * engine: 420,000,200 lbs * fuel: 8,400,004 lbs gives Burn Endurance of 8,000 hours * 50,000,000,000 lbs fuel gives Burn Endurance of 47,619,024.9 hours = 5,432.33379 years * Thrust: 300,000 lbs * LWt: 50,698,137,445 lbs * Delta-Vee: 21.8 * 1,000,000 * ln (1+(50,000,000,000/698,137,445)) miles/hour in metres/second = 41,761,573.9 meters / second 2.15 lightyears / (0.5 * 41,761,573.9 meters / second) in years = 30.8682707 years * 2 = total trip time of 61 years.
I've never designed a vehicle, so I may comment may not carry any weight, but if you design a ship with a Delta-Vee of 10 meters/sec (i.e. 1G, as in no need for artificial gravity to the human occupants) and spend half your trip accelerating 1G and the other half decelerating at 1G, you can get from here to the galactic center in a human lifetime AS FAR AS THE OCCUPANTS are concerned, due to time dilation.
My guess is that the above situation would assume that money is no object. But, thought I'd offer my 2 cents.
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