Re: Time it takes for Lunar Travel


"Sander Vesik" <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> well, 1g transport to moon would be nice ;-) And would take a comfortable
> 3.5 hours. Getting there (much) faster gets rather tedious fast:
> ~ 2.5 hours at 2g
> ~ 2 hours at 3g
> ~ 1h40 at 4g
> ~ 1h30 at 5g
> ~ 55 minutes at 14g
>
> The two ways of looking at this are:
> * humans will most probably never make it to the moon faster
> than in an hour

Well, until a transporter is developed! :-)

(speaking of which, anyone read Penrose's theory of why electrons and
photons can "be in two places at once" but macroscopic objects can't be?)


> * it might be fesible to daily commute to work (and back)
> from your apartment on Moon at some point in the future.
>
> --
> Sander
>
> +++ Out of cheese error +++


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