(urth) Merryn and Triskele

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:13:57 +1000 Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> 
wrote:
>I'm deeply suspicious that the accelerations allowable in the 
>Whorl  
>(without the lakes sloshing all over everywhere, etc) would give 
>you  
>sufficient relativistic compression to make a thousand-year 
>journey  
>only last 300.  Michael Andre-Driussi and I have batted this one  
>around a little, and the question comes down to, "how fast can the 


> 
>Whorl accelerate."

Seems to me you can get that compression with something less than 
0.01g, if your magic space-engine gives you constant boost up to 
0.95c or beyond. Or no? But anyway I have no idea how noticeable 
0.01g would be; would you get sloshing etc?