(urth) Merryn and Triskele

[Jeff Wilson]

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:

> 
> 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?

no slosh, and the tiny acceleration would be swamped in the effects of 
the Whorl's spin gravity.

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