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  Lost In Space Again

   • j********o@***.com
     30/05/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     I just watched the movie again, and noticed that Robinson downloaded a
     route to

     Alpha Prime from the Proteus' computer - and set course for there at the
     end.

     So their problem was navigation, not distance. How this jibes with their

     random hyperdrive, I don't know... Come to think of it, they presumably
     had

     some other means of practical interstellar travel which would have taken
     them

     on their intended ten year trip from Earth, so they were not going to
     use the

     hyperdrive at all. This makes sense, although I wish they'd cleared
     things up

     by mentioning this slower FTL drive. One might most easily rationalize
     this

     not by another slower hyperdrive but by supposing that Robinson's
     hyperdrive

     *can* be targeted, but must be well clear of any stellar masses to work

     properly, so the ten years are flight time out of the solar system to
     where a

     quick FTL jump can take them to the vicinity of the Alpha system plus a
     lengthy

     approach. The function of the hypergate could then merely be to allow
     well

     behaved jumps from and to points within a solar system, hence, practical

     colonization.

     I'm not absolutely sure which time period they wind up in, either.

     Hey Win '95 users - tell me what happens when you use Ctrl + Shift +
     Right

     Cursor (as if to select whole words to the right)? My computer starts

     searching for a shortcut or something...

     Gorno

     "Mom always says I should try to make friends..."

     "Oh - har har."

       • v********6@***.com
         03/06/1999 00:00:000 UTC

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