On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Zan Lynx <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 19:45 -0400, DataPacRat wrote: > >> GVB suggests that, ignoring fuel, a rocket that's nothing but a big >> TL8 nuclear pulse drive could reach about 20 gees, which would give an >> outside range of around .95 AU... so I suggested Venus, which is only >> .28 AU away during conjunction, and might allow a more feasible >> vehicle (ie, one that has enough fuel for the trip). > > Unless you have inertial dampers, antigravity or some other way to > cushion the passengers, they aren't going to survive 15 hours at 20 > gravities.
How about G:Vehicles' wombtanks? (Plus, after fuel is added, the accel is going to be rather less than 20 gees - that was the outside edge for ruling out the gas giants.) Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat lu .iacu'i ma krinu lo du'u .ei mi krici la'e di'u li'u traji lo ka vajni fo lo preti _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
