Re: Slingshot effect

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Erick Slazinski wrote:

<snippp>
> Granted, the ship would have to have a high SR rating and a high level
> person at the Helm.  Of course, staying at the edge of the sun's gravity
> well would be difficult maneuver, but it could provide for some
> interesting adventures.
>
> Comments?
Yeah like the greatest of problems will probably keeping your spaceship
from burning to nothingness while waiting for your personal time gate...
I can hear him call "The charcoal can't take it any more Jim"
No, serious there arises a slight problem:
Different gravitational forces...
Star Treck is running in this cosm (errr,m weeeeelll, somewhat :)) so
each celestial body has it's own specific gravitational pull and with
regards to the sun this is a lot more than your standart 1G....
But hell, rather use magic...and do it like Back to the future... you
have to attain a Spelljamming speed of about 12 to do the jump..:)
Nuff from me.
Bye.
Carsten.