[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PvK:
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How many years did it take to develop the unmanned probe to Mars that crashed because someone had a math error converting Imperial units to Metric, and how much did that cost?
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Posted by Graeme:
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It cost only around $150 million dollars, and took less than five years to develop. By the time a SE4 game starts, the people have faster than light drives, and spaceships that can travel across solar systems with a full crew within a single month. Their level of technology is far, far ahead of ours.

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Posted by Imperator Fyron:
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Well, again, your imagination of SE4's tech levels is simply much higher than mine. For example, I don't see SE4 as starting with FTL drives. Light takes EIGHT MINUTES to get from the Sun to the Earth. An SE4 turn is about a month. So, light speed in SE4 would be oh, probably well over 1000, not 6 (ion engine speed in SE4).
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But Graeme's point is valid though if you throw out the FTL part. Ships in SE4 don't travel FTL speeds within system, but they go a LOT faster than anything we can currently do. The Voyager Probes were launched what, 30 years ago? And an SE4 ship launched from Earth now could catch them in about 2 months.

You guys's got me thinking about FTL in SE4 tersm though. I didn't want to hijack this thread so I started a new one.

Link to OT thread

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