RE: RE: starship-design: Drag

[David Levine <david@actionworld.com>]

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> From: 	L. Parker[SMTP:lparker@cacaphony.net]
> Subject: 	RE: RE: starship-design: Drag
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> On Wednesday, October 08, 1997 11:46 PM, KellySt@aol.com 
> > No I have heard that Sol is inside part of a 800 light year bubble
> thined
> > down by a super nova blast a few centuries back.
> 
> Correct, except it was a little farther back than that...
> 
> Lee
> 
Right.  If you're talking 800 light years in diameter, it was at the
very least four centuries ago, and that assumes the shell travelled at
near light-speed, which is unlikely.
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