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	Re: Durandal's first return to earth
	Posted By: poena.dare #CP#	Date: 1/14/03 8:14 a.m.
	In Response To: Re: Durandal's first return to earth (Tru7h) : Leela squwering of her dates confuses and delays the phor assault on earth Yes, I hope! ;) While writing my dissertation on Bernard and the 3 AIs, I came across something disturbing... very disturbing. While poking about looking for information on Tau Ceti, I came across Loren Petrich's page at http://www.petrich.com/games/marathon/tc_more.html. Note this quote: Yet if most of those 17 years were spent examining those stars to see if Lh'owon is present, then it would take about a day per star. But let's consider what would happen if the Boomer had taken 17 years to reach the Galactic core. From the above distance to there, its cruising speed works out to be 1500 c. ... And if Durandal had taken only a year to do all his traveling, however, the Boomer would have had a cruising speed of 60,000 c, yielding only 2 hours from Tau Ceti to the Sun, passing Antares in 4 days, and going from Lh'owon to the Galactic center in 14 hours. In a nutshell, depending on whether Durandal went straight to the core and then spent 17 years looking for Lh'owon or spent 17 years getting to the core, searching stars all the way - the Boomer would have a speed of 60,000 to 1,500 times the speed of light. First, this means that Durandal would have to return to Earth right away to teach them to make warp missiles - Earth was defenseless and the Pfhor were too damned close. What's even more bothersome is that while the Pfhor were nuking Tau Ceti down to bedrock don't you think someone would have noticed these lightspeed messages that are coming to Tau Ceti from Earth? ("Hey guys, how's the colony doing?") I mean, if the Phror wanted to go to Earth from Tau Ceti it would only take them a day to get there at the most! The only explanation I can come up with is that the Pfhor were so insecure about Durandal running around they decided to drop everything and go look for him. Otherwise, I see no reason they wouldn't have immediately moved to Earth and either nuked the place or enslaved the planet.

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Replies:

	Durandal's first return to earth	Steve Levinson	1/10/03 10:45 a.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	poena.dare #CP#	1/10/03 12:32 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Steve Levinson	1/10/03 2:14 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth.. And stuff	poena.dare #CP#	1/10/03 3:40 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth.. And stuff	Officer 19502	1/13/03 3:45 a.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth.. And stuff	Steve Levinson	1/13/03 9:33 a.m.
	Was Bernhard pulling more strings than we thought?	Officer 19502	1/14/03 4:32 a.m.
	Re: Was Bernhard pulling more strings than we thou	poena.dare #CP#	1/14/03 4:51 a.m.
	Re: Was Bernhard pulling more strings than we thou	Officer 19502	1/15/03 3:08 a.m.
	Re: Was Bernhard pulling more strings than we thou	Cybergeek	1/14/03 9:51 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Cybergeek	1/10/03 7:29 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Tru7h	1/12/03 1:38 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Cybergeek	1/12/03 4:31 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Tru7h	1/13/03 4:14 a.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Cybergeek	1/13/03 7:03 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Tru7h	1/14/03 5:17 a.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	poena.dare #CP#	1/14/03 8:14 a.m.
	Re: Durandal's first return to earth	Tru7h	1/14/03 4:42 p.m.

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