Space Voyage #1 Chatter

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Janus

It really depends on how long we want to maintain thrust. If we go full thrust for three days, we could get to Jupiter in roughly 5 weeks, including braking at the end. That's 3 days of thrust, a little over 4 weeks coasting, and then about 3 days of thrust to brake and match velocity with Jupiter.

Actually, I agree with Janus. 17 hours should be considered an initial boost. Then we do maintenance on the pusher plate assembly, the pellet injector, the toroid reactor, make sure everything is go, and then do it again until we accumulate 36 hours of thrust. Perhaps we could justify this as a result of the fact that the injector can only hold 30,000 pellets at one time.

I would like to check the ETA though. If 1.5 days thrust (~) gives us ETA of 5 months and 3.0 days gives us ETA of 5 weeks. Well, you see the problem?

[Pyrotex]

Just a side note -- a suggestion to all. It would be fantastic if all our plots and calculations all agreed, but then we would spend all our time here in "chatter" and none out there on the ship.

Don't be afraid to post on the Vogage #1 thread!!! C'mon!! have fun and do it. Use "chatter" for clarifying some technical stuff perhaps or for arranging with a crew member that you want THEM to offer a solution, but don't be afraid to have "cracks" in the story line. It's a story, remember? And the purpose is to have fun and maybe learn something. And to create something we can be proud of.

Give it your best shot. We can always twist a later plot to cover any descrepancies in a past plot.

[Janus]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Actually,

I would like to check the ETA though. If 1.5 days thrust (~) gives us ETA of 5 months and 3.0 days gives us ETA of 5 weeks. Well, you see the problem?

Wait a minute, I thought your 5 month ETA was based on a 1000 min or 16.7 hr burn? 16.7 hrs is only 0.7 days not 1.5 days.

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Janus

Wait a minute, I thought your 5 month ETA was based on a 1000 min or 16.7 hr burn? 16.7 hrs is only 0.7 days not 1.5 days.

...a thousand times...

Right! That was my daily required egregious error! Great! Now I am assured of being perfect the rest of the day!

Yes, our pellet injector can give us 1000 minutes of thrust at one time. We do maintenance and then repeat as necessary. Thanks for pointing this out. Good job.

[ronthepon]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Jupiter's distance is 650 Mkm, so (a little mental math

Ha. Ha. (Kiddish and mocking sort of snigger)

MKm?

---> Gm <---

[ronthepon]

Oh, and er... why is nobody putting up any new posts? It seems like there aint any one around!

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by ronthepon

Oh, and er... why is nobody putting up any new posts? It seems like there aint any one around!

Let us list the plausible reasons:

1. They are tired of space travel and adventure already.
2. They are worried they will add a "wrong" plot twist (PT).
3. They are afraid they will add a PT that disagrees with a previous one.
4. They are afraid their posts aren't as good as BigDog's.
5. They don't like the 'intrigue' PTs I and others have thrown in.
6. They are afraid they won't be able to think of any new PTs.
7. They are discouraged that they can't draw stuff like Janus.
8. They can't get a date with Desiree la'Tush.

[TheFaithfulStone]

What's our current location? Are we boosting out of Earth Orbit yet, or are we still there?

TFS

[TheBigDog]

We cleared earth yesterday but I have not posted it yet. Spent too much time on other posts.

Bill

[TheFaithfulStone]

Tfs