Re: superhero space navigation

Leonard Erickson wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:30:58 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>> Leonard Erickson wrote:
>>> The peak accelerations are kinda scary too.
>> Eh, a few hundred gees are peanuts for a superhero :-).
> 
> Well, I got a peak accel in the neighborhood of 20,000 m/s^2 for the
> "fast" version of the 10AU trip.

With the corrected numbers, the peak acceleration at the 5 au mark for 
the lower-jerk trip is 2.22 x 10^3 m/s^2 = 227 gee.  The higher-jerk 
trip has a jerk of 3.95 x 10^-1 m/s^3, takes 2.25 x 10^4 s, and so has a 
peak acceleration of 8.89 x 10^3 m/s^2 = 906 gee.  Still in the hundreds.

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