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Edited by ASaltySnowman:
4/24/2016 6:01:41 AM
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How fast are our ships?
Pretty fast.
***Forewarning, this is all incredibly rudimentary, as I don't really know about any laws of physics/relativity/whatever. This is just using simple speed-distance-time calculations, based on some surface level data.
But, still pretty interesting.
If we take the average [i]favorable[/i] loading time of 30 seconds when going to, say Mars, which is on average 225 million kilometers away from Earth, we get a rough speed of 16,777,022,190.408018112 mph. The speed of light is about 670,616,629 mph.
Again, that's pretty fast.
For example, we could travel to Alpha Centauri, a distance of roughly 4.357 lightyears from the Earth, in 63.75 days. Even going the speed of light, it would take 4.4 years, and that's a speed currently considered impossible.
The Golden Age really was golden.
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Wasn't trying to say the ships function by simple point to point movement, just that if they did, this would technically be their speed. If I did try to explain why it's the same amount of travel time no matter where you go, I'd say maybe we've gained access to something similar to Halo's slipspace, or can create wormholes. This was just a boredom post.
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4 RepliesWeird, considering we only have NLS drives. "Near light speed."
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3 RepliesDude! The Vienna singer did the Kepler run in 9 parsecs. She's the fastest ship in the galaxy.
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Depends on your router
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4 RepliesEdited by HaDov_Gadol: 4/24/2016 1:17:28 AM[i]He's going into plaid...[/i] [spoiler][b]Ludicrous Speed[/b][/spoiler]
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They may even be faster. What if you get a "reasonable" 30 loading screen when you travel from Mercury to Saturn? I think that our ships travel at a constant speed, but use warp drives or wormholes to travel these vast distances.
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1 ReplyIf a ship had that speed it would be easy to blow up oryx dreadnought. Just let a ship faster then causality itself hit the dreadnought. Boooom. An explosion and a black hole.
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Pretty damn slow imo... Having to use a wrap drive to reach the moon from the earth? That's depressing
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1 ReplyLudicrous speed.
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1 ReplyPeople want a realistic experience, then complain that it takes to long to travel between planets. So they nerf fusion rifles
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6 RepliesThey're faster than light speed, even though the drive is called [b]NLS, OR NEAR LIGHT SPEED[/b]. So, yeah....
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Significant figures, please.
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1 ReplyNot fast enough to get to a good strike apparently.
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1 ReplyIt kinda depends on how you define "fast" and traveling distance. You see, our ships might not necessarily travel from point A to B faster than the speed of light. We reach there in a time that is quicker than light could've reached it, but that doesn't mean out ships travel faster than light. Bear with me here. I'm not saying that the speed of light is a barrier in this game filled with space magic, but it might not have to be. Our ships can clock in at a slower speed and still reach the destination within the minute. Instead of traveling in a straight line towards a destination, you could [i]warp[/i] space and time into pushing you faster than light. Unlike matter, spacetime is not bound by the constraints of relativity and the speed limit of the universe. In fact, right now the universe is expanding faster than light. Einstein isn't wrong, because matter isn't technically moving faster than the speed of light. This warping of space and time basically gives you free reign over where you want to be and how far you have to travel to get there. Wormholes are a way of bending spacetime so that you can put down a hole, step through, and be somewhere far away. Another way is by warping spacetime around your ship to push you to the destination. Space would expanding in such a way that your ship can ride the wave of this expansion, as a way to visualize it. If you were to use this method, your ship could be traveling at the cruising speed of a dead snail and still get to the destination in time for dinner. It makes a lot of sense, that our ships would utilize warped spacetime. After all, ships in Destiny use warp drives.
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2 RepliesDepends on your internet connection
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So fast that we don't even have time to explain why we don't have time to explain.
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Could my rocket launcher have that much velocity?
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2 RepliesThe loading screens aren't canon. It takes the same time to load up anywhere in the solar system. Our ships aren't meant to be long distance ships. The reef ships were designed to travel longer distances.
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All ships in Destiny are interplanetary, but not interstellar. Interplanetary=between two heavenly bodies in space. Interstellar=between two stars or star systems.
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Well from my experience they only go as fast as your connection
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10 RepliesI would like to add during our flight animation (loading screen) we enter and leave a bright area and stop near the planets. What if we were able to control slip space travel or worm holes the time to reach point a and b will be extremely quick hence why we take roughly 30-45 seconds to get to a planet or heck even to saturn from mercury
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Hella
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Sanic fast
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Edited by Gamur Wenus: 4/24/2016 2:53:04 AMDepends. You can go from earth to the jovian outpost in about a one minute load screen. But take the same time from earth to the moon. There is no such thing as logic
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An interesting and thoughtful observation sir. *tips mug and nods thoughtfully.
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88 mph ...
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They never explained how the ships work, though. There are all kinds of theories about being able to bend space and crazy shit like that. The ships might just skip past most of it (which would make "jump ship" a reasonable name). If we are doing something like that, it could help explain the Hive. Have you seen Event Horizon? All that Hive shit could be our fault. [spoiler]I'm not 100% sober. [/spoiler]
