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Nick20
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I didn't really know where to put this, so I just put it here.
What I wanted to discuss was the following:
often in sci-fi movies or series they have the capability to travel faster than light one way or another. Whether it is by means of FTL, hyperspace, wormholes or whatever they always seem to have this to worry about. "We need to do a proper jump calculation, or else we could end up in a star". I hear that a lot, and it got me thinking: if you just pick any coordinates by random, how big is the chance that you'll end up in some star? Because in my head there's a lot of space that is not occupied by a star. So in an emergency situation, is the chance of ending up in a star really too high to take the risk?
I don't know if anyone else have thought of this, but when I first noticed it really puzzled me.
Nik
What I wanted to discuss was the following:
often in sci-fi movies or series they have the capability to travel faster than light one way or another. Whether it is by means of FTL, hyperspace, wormholes or whatever they always seem to have this to worry about. "We need to do a proper jump calculation, or else we could end up in a star". I hear that a lot, and it got me thinking: if you just pick any coordinates by random, how big is the chance that you'll end up in some star? Because in my head there's a lot of space that is not occupied by a star. So in an emergency situation, is the chance of ending up in a star really too high to take the risk?
I don't know if anyone else have thought of this, but when I first noticed it really puzzled me.
Nik