How fast Is SPEC?
-
- Merchant
- Posts: 60
- Joined: Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:36 pm
- Contact:
How fast Is SPEC?
Okay this is a question that i asked a long time ago and didnt get an answer for... how fast is 97C? I mean what does the "C" stand for? I know it goes by meters and i know its about 1 light minute per second.. but what does C stand for?
~VS Forever~
-
- Merchant
- Posts: 39
- Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:28 pm
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
for the most part all of vegastrike is based off of what the dev's think would happen in actual space and spec is just a way to multiply the speed you are going
C is just the speed of light 3.0 x 10^8 m/s
C is just the speed of light 3.0 x 10^8 m/s
-
- The Shepherd
- Posts: 5841
- Joined: Fri May 13, 2005 8:37 pm
- Location: Ottawa
- Contact:
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
C is the speed of light 3.0 x 10^8 meters/sec is a good approximation for quick calculations as the more accurate 2.9 whatever changes quite often depending on the latest measurement technique and in most situations more than three significant digits is meaningless.
Enjoy the Choice
Enjoy the Choice
my box::HP Envy i5-6400 @2Q70GHzx4 8 Gb ram/1 Tb(Win10 64)/3 Tb Mint 19.2/GTX745 4Gb acer S243HL K222HQL
Q8200/Asus P5QDLX/8 Gb ram/WD 2Tb 2-500 G HD/GF GT640 2Gb Mint 17.3 64 bit Win 10 32 bit acer and Lenovo ideapad 320-15ARB Win 10/Mint 19.2
Q8200/Asus P5QDLX/8 Gb ram/WD 2Tb 2-500 G HD/GF GT640 2Gb Mint 17.3 64 bit Win 10 32 bit acer and Lenovo ideapad 320-15ARB Win 10/Mint 19.2
-
- Merchant
- Posts: 60
- Joined: Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:36 pm
- Contact:
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
Oh cool thanks for answering i didnt know that helps me out alot. so technically your ship is going 97.34 times the speed of light while in SPEC?
~VS Forever~
-
- Merchant
- Posts: 39
- Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:28 pm
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
i think you go faster than that loki would probably know better than i do but i think your actual speed is 97.34C x the number that is below that value as spec from what i have read elsewhere on the forum is just a way to multiply your velocity but not actually sure
-
- Merchant
- Posts: 41
- Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:23 pm
- Location: In the pilot seat of my Areus.
- Contact:
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
299792458 m/s, actually. This number shouldn't ever change unless some crazy religious fundamentalists get a say in it, because the metre is defined as the distance a beam of light in a vacuum travels in 1/299792458 s.loki1950 wrote:C is the speed of light 3.0 x 10^8 meters/sec is a good approximation for quick calculations as the more accurate 2.9 whatever changes quite often depending on the latest measurement technique and in most situations more than three significant digits is meaningless.
Enjoy the Choice
What I wonder, though, is from what reference frame the SPEC speed is measured. The ship can't locally move faster than light, but can appear from an external observer to do so. The question remains: which observer?
-
- The Shepherd
- Posts: 5841
- Joined: Fri May 13, 2005 8:37 pm
- Location: Ottawa
- Contact:
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
Lots of speculation on that safemode started a thread on what SPEC should be like but no real consensus was reached.
Enjoy the Choice
Enjoy the Choice
my box::HP Envy i5-6400 @2Q70GHzx4 8 Gb ram/1 Tb(Win10 64)/3 Tb Mint 19.2/GTX745 4Gb acer S243HL K222HQL
Q8200/Asus P5QDLX/8 Gb ram/WD 2Tb 2-500 G HD/GF GT640 2Gb Mint 17.3 64 bit Win 10 32 bit acer and Lenovo ideapad 320-15ARB Win 10/Mint 19.2
Q8200/Asus P5QDLX/8 Gb ram/WD 2Tb 2-500 G HD/GF GT640 2Gb Mint 17.3 64 bit Win 10 32 bit acer and Lenovo ideapad 320-15ARB Win 10/Mint 19.2
-
- Venturer
- Posts: 555
- Joined: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:18 am
- Location: Quito, Ecuador.
- Contact:
Re: How fast Is SPEC?
That makes me think...loki1950 wrote:Lots of speculation on that safemode started a thread on what SPEC should be like but no real consensus was reached.
My Machine: OS: Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) 64 bit in a 500GB Maxtor HD @ 7200 RPM, Windows Vista PsyChoses Edition 2009 32 bit in a 500GB Samsung HD @ 7200 RPM CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GPU: nVidia GeForce 9400 GT @ 1024 MB RAM: 3891 MB
Earthlings|The End of the Internet?|FreeWebsite
Earthlings|The End of the Internet?|FreeWebsite