Re: Transit times between L4 and Moon

Androcles wrote:
" They are racing to reach the Moon. "

"Flip a coin" doesn't enter into it, the result is a tie. :-)

Always amusing when someone wants to sound knowledgeable when they
babble "relativistic orbital velocity", but then say "likely", and funnier
still when they say:
"The other consideration you failed to pay notice to..."

To put it succinctly: you're wrong. =)

Racing to the moon means racing to an object with a dynamic position. The only way the "race" would result in a tie is if the moon just so happened to be precisely on the line of perpendicularity with the sun at the time each rocket reached the moon. The odds of that are pretty slim. This isn't even taking into account landing approaches, which add another level of complexity that is likely to change the outcome. Please think before you troll.

- Timothy Partee
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