(urth) STL vs FTL
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
Fri Dec 21 22:06:05 PST 2007
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:01:52 +1100 Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
wrote:
>
>Possible - Typhon's "dry" dialogue indicates he is familiar with
>some
>form of suspended animation that might allow STL travel between
>multiple
>stars by a particular person, but there still needs to be time for
>the
>news of Typhon's need to travel to many worlds and the various
>doctors
>from each of them to travel back with enough time left to perform
>the
>procedure. Typhon's natural lifetime could have been extended by
>divers
>means, but given his face orientation, it seems unlikely he would
>have
>hibernated while on Urth, waiting for the physicians to arrive.
And also: how could he have been the ruler of many worlds without
some kind of FTL travel?
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