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Bob Schroeck	A Very Appropriate Quote	Lead	[-]
Posts: 15160 (06/11/09 11:47 AM) Chief Screwball and Loon Wrangler Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None I don't know why people think space is so far away. It's only a half hour drive, if your car could go up. -- Unknown -- Bob --------- Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.
Cobalt Greywalker		#1	[-]
Posts: 469 (06/11/09 03:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	On an Auto-Bahn maybe. Otherwise it's about an hour (given my sketchy knowledge of legal main road speeds around the world) given the distance.
blackaeronaut		#2	[-]
Posts: 1175 (06/13/09 06:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	How fast would you have to be going to make it out of the atmosphere in ten minutes? Black Aeronaut Technologies Group Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer "The difficult we do while you wait. For the impossible you'll need to schedule an appointment."
Cobalt Greywalker		#3	[-]
Posts: 471 (06/13/09 10:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Quoting from the concordance for DWV: Chapter Four: I'd made it to hard vacuum in less than 50 seconds. The Karman Line, considered to be the boundary beyond which is officially "outer space," is 100 kilometers or approximately 58 miles up. At Mach 6 (about 4566 miles per hour and Doug's top atmospheric speed using "I Am A Pioneer", as seen in Chapter Six of DW2), Doug can reach the Karman Line in a hair under 46 seconds. As such, 58mph times 6 (6 times 10 mins equals 60 mins or 1 hour) equals 348mph. The atmosphere however extends beyond that to a theoretical 10,000 km or roughly 6214 miles, so 37,284mph Last Edited By: Cobalt Greywalker 06/13/09 10:54 AM. Edited 1 times.
blackaeronaut		#4	[-]
Posts: 1179 (06/13/09 05:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	348mph? PSSHH! In that case, Bullet Boy Express can punch it in less than five minutes. Acceleration Drive boosters FTW. Thank you Turbonique for making Micro-Turbo Thrusters for Fenspace!Ben to 'wave-job. :) Black Aeronaut Technologies Group Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer "The difficult we do while you wait. For the impossible you'll need to schedule an appointment."
Timote		#5	[-]
Posts: 931 (06/19/09 11:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	here's a quote I think Blackaeronaut will like: "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti My Reality Check just bounced...
ECSNorway		#6	[-]
Posts: 1913 (06/19/09 12:06 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"Happiness is the planet Earth in your rear-view mirror." "The meek will inherit the Earth. The rest of us have bigger plans." "There is no personal problem that cannot be solved through the appropriate application of high explosives." "Will all the telekinetics in the room please raise my hand." -- "Oops." -- Shannon Foraker
Ebony		#7	[-]
Posts: 1328 (06/19/09 04:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"No matter where you go, there you are." - You Know Who "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now!" - Elwood Blues "Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed." - Robin Ebony the Black Dragon Senior Editor, Living Room Games http://www.lrgames.com
robkelk		#8	[-]
Posts: 3521 (06/19/09 08:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Ebony wrote: "Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed." - Robin More appropriate than you might know, considering a scene in LoGG chapter 3. (Bob might remember the scene, but I e-mailed it to him over a year ago.) Yes, I'm working on it... -- Rob Kelk "Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007

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