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Right, I don't understand the relationship between what I said and what you said.
1ls = a unit of distance, indicates the amount of distance traveled in one second while at the speed of light (c)
c = the speed of light, a unit of speed, very very fast
1ls/s = a unit of speed, equivalent to c (traveling 1 light second in one second means that you are moving at c)
Stuff about Clark Terminal = What? I don't know how this relates.
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while you blown our mind with that.
and c comes after ls,?
No. c is a unit of speed. ls is a unit of distance. What you are saying is the equivalent of "You know what's even faster than a hundred miles an hour? FIFTEEN MILES." It doesn't make sense.
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You are not correct. It is m/s, km/s, Mm/s, c.
ls measures the distance you are traveling. When you select a target it might say, for instance, 47.63ls. This means if you moved at a constant rate of c (you generally don't, you start much slower and depending on graveity wells can potentially go much, much faster) it would take you 47.63 seconds to get there. The fastest I have gone is 1800c, or 1ls in 1/1800th of a second.
Nothing is being left out. If you mean Ls is left out of m/s, Mm/s, c then I am afraid you are comparing apples and oranges.
Ls is distance.
m/s, Mm/s, c are the units of speed.
This cannot be compared.
ls is another word for light speed which is another word for cool which is another word for speed travelled in, unless you want that taken out of the calculations too?
now if you were thinking warp speed \ travel, now that would be a word for distance travelled by, since none of what is on this thread can dignify what distance really is :S
now if you were thinking warp speed \ travel, now that would be a word for distance travelled by, since none of what is on this thread can dignify what distance really is :S
I've never heard of this either.
To OP: Ls is light-second, 1Ls = 299 792 458 metres. And this is the unit of distance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-second
No Ls is light-second... not a speed but a distance. The distance travelled by light in one second. The distances this game uses are distances defined by speed which is the reverse of what we're used to dealing with. In everyday life we're familiar with distances like miles and then speeds defined by distance such as miles per hour (Both defined by time of course) This I think caused confusion.
If you want to get really confused try time defined by speed and distance, nobody actually does this but it would be a unit of time being something like the amount of time it takes light to travel a parsec (about 3 years)... We could call this unit of time a light-parsec.
If you are travelling at the speed of light then you also cover the distance of one light second per second (1Ls/s) or 'c'
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Oh, sorry! Didn't realize you were Jaden Smith.
Uh... you can't break a mirror... because... mirrors are our real face? Sorry, my Jaden is really rusty!
Its true
Red is a hotter and longer wavelength, Blue is cooler and a shorter wavelength
I.E. Infrared -----> Ultraviolet
heat ------> microwaves
Hope this helps
Poor, poor Casper...
Actually, the hotter a body is, the more shorter the emitted wavelengths are (you said that correct), but that means going from red (cold) to blue (hot).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Microwaves (centimeter range) have by far longer wavelengths than infrared (nanometer range).
Close but there's a reason why blue stars are hottest and red stars are coolest in the game.
Our ship isn't moving faster than c, just the localized space around it. The Elite universe still holds to relativity.
We do get a flash and boom initially when we compress space with the drive in game though.