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Bus and train timetables often deal with non-FTL travel (where FTL means 'faster than late').
 
springs1971 said:
Just to mention, Hex, somewhere buried on one of the threads (I think it's in ask a scientist) Vertigo produced the most amazing program to calculate travelling time.
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There is indeed such a program however it is only for calculating relativistic speeds, it can't handle FTL; the equations all go bonkers (another technical scientific term there).
 
Glitch said:
-Power, I assume an ftl engine would need a great supply of power. You could turn off all the lights while the ship accelerates/decelerates from ftl.
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Ahh, but if you're traveling ftl and turn on the headlights, what happens? :D
 
Hex, you could always use the system set up by Walter Jon Williams in his Dread Empire's Fall trilogy. All ships were in-system ships. They just had to use stable wormholes (which, IIRC were natural, not man-made...alien-made?) to travel to other stars. The downside was brutal acceleration that could kill crewmembers as the tried to get their ships to the next wormhole in time.

There was also a balancing act to keep the wormholes stable. They built space stations near the wormholes, and they pushed small asteroids through because if too much matter went one way without the same amount going the other way, your wormhole ceased to be stable.

And unstable wormholes are probably very bad news indeed.
 
TheDustyZebra said:
Ahh, but if you're traveling ftl and turn on the headlights, what happens? :D
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The light would be caught in the boundary between the FTL warp and normal space. It would be released when the warp collapsed.

Theoretically, it is possible to travel faster than light but all the theories use negative energy. Since no-one knows how to create negative energy, they all remain theories. :)
 
Would that mean that we would, in effect, be equipping starships with deskjets...?
 
Q. In England, if a woman murders her husband, would she still inherit all his estate (assuming she was the sole/primary beneficiary) or would the "proceeds of crime" legislation mean she wouldn't? Sub-Q. Was this true in 2007/8?
 
I'm not from UK so don't take me as a definite source, but from what I could dig up. There are laws in place in UK and probably the rest of the world that prevent the murderer from inheriting.

This might help:
The Forfeiture Rule

EDIT:

Just searched up an example for you that confirms it:
Wife murdered by husband

It was revealed today that Mrs Prout left her killer a gross estate of £626,463 and when her affairs were settled that amount dropped to £626,190.

However, British law forbids Prout from receiving any of the money because he carried out the killing.
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Is there a green metal? I ask because I have a character with green eyes and need a green metal for a poetic description of her glaring at her possibly-soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend.
 
Who could possibly resist the romance of metal...?


The green copper compound that Springs mentions - malachite (Cu2CO3(OH)2), which is that pale green you can see on domes on buildings - is one of a number of green gemstones (some of whose names, to be fair, are usually associated with other colours).



(See http://gemologyonline.com/green.html, which was the first response on Google's search for green gems. The second response has rather more convincing pictures: http://www.bernardine.com/gemstones/green.htm.)
 
Jade?
hard semi-precious rock (not a gem stone, but stone stone), dark green with black or white veining.

it also has been used to describe angry women, or so the internet tells me ;)

  • A hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite.
  • A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
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yes I must say that angry women are a complete myth to me, I would never have known about them without the aid of the internet. *suppressed mirth sparkles in mischievous eyes*
 
I think if I described my character's eyes in terms of "exposed copper turning green", she might just turn into a completely angry myth.

And if I said her eyes were like (Cu2CO3(OH)2), she would probably think I was swearing at her.
 
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