... Exerpt from The 11 Billion Dollar Bottle of Wine http://www.costik.com/inttrade.html The reason trade exists is that different groups are efficient at...
A realization of my own error which I'll fix later (and which makes my cost per ton/week wrong as well). That 30,000 per ton is for the whole ship. We need...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 1, 2002 12:08 pm
1826
... 1.9 earth years. ... 0.93 G ... Generally done. Heck most of it was given to me and most of the rest I did earlier in the week. The only things on your...
... wrote: Before replying - for the second time - I have to make a primal scream here. [rant] *** I HATE YAHOO GROUPS!! HATE HATE HATE, KILL KILL KILL !!!...
Gentlemen, I'm still in the boonies. I've had an unexpected opportunity to grab my mail, so I'm sending a question during the event. What degree of damage...
... Well, it could approach at something on the order of 100 km/s. At that velocity it packs kinetic energy equal to about 1000 times its own mass in TNT....
question why would transporting ag products or any other products be any different than going from LA to tokyo? they are big cargo ships that require...
... they ... This is a good question, and you're giving roughly the same answer Kirk does. My answer comes out different because of different assumptions...
OK, let's try to build this right. First, let's work with that 10,000 ton freighter. I probably missed something, but assuming you only need two crew units...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 2, 2002 1:57 am
1833
... is a ... and 190,000 ... Let's design a freighter core. 200 hull spaces. Each hull space is 100 cubic meters, or a block 4.65 meters on a side. For point...
... Fascinating. I hadn't realized the star it orbited was that bright. Checking numbers real quick. Bolometric magnitude of 2.44 or so. Yep, if anything...
Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders. There's probably a copy gathering dust in your local library. It's a translation of the writings of one Gunnar Asgeirson, a...
bottom line up front: $0.312 per ton/day. $0.156 per m3/day. One ton of grain on a 91 day voyag orbit to orbit has a shipping cost of $14.20. ====== I think I...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 2, 2002 10:49 am
1837
... Okay, let's! [design details snipped] ... dramatically ... Skews Kirk's, and crumples mine into a thimble! This cost model makes interstellar transport,...
... OK. That's a completely different project than what I thought it was. Now I know what I'm doing. I like it. I need to refocus my thought process on this....
... Data I was given says 18 hours. Which leads to an interesting thought. Humans are "wired" for 24 hour days. I wonder about the psychological effects of 9...
... thought. ... psychological ... in ... This is a way good question. Has any kind of research been done regarding day-length adaptability? My gut feeling is...
... and ... And per your later comments, about 1 million per ton for a jet freighter (rather than a passenger liner, which is more expensive) So, $30,000 per...
... was. ... Looking forward to it. You are welcome to change some of the planetary parameters if you so wish. ... I would like to be able to show the VRML...
An important thing to consider. If regular traffic along a route ceases, it takes considerable effort to resume. The Hyparspace handwavium says that in order...
Feh. I wrote the following and then it didn't go where it was supposed to go. So it's a smidgeon outdated, but still somewhat applicable (I think). Oh, and...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 2, 2002 10:02 pm
1845
... Some broken arithmetic here. :> We're mixing cost per ton and cost per hullspace. $60,000/ton = $3 million per *hullspace,* or $300 million for the ...
... cost I was ... Per hullspace or per ton? $10,000 per *hullspace* would be REALLY cheap - $200/ton! And, for freighters - or at any rate their pods - we...
... The 12:1 rule makes a corvette 600 million under this regime. Which is comparable in price to a low end surface naval combatant in current era. ... which,...
... There are four physical factors that will make places into shipping backwaters. 1) Surface to Orbit energy. Any kind of laser based propulsion system will...
... Oh, undoubtably. I cant see Oceanus doing large amounts of trade - Pre or Post Whatever. Internally there is a lot of barter trade going on. Externally...
Lets see how Oceanus fares. ... Oceanus has a 1.2 gravity, higher than just about anywhere else, which makes boosting to orbit an expensive proposition. Strike...
Rick. 1) Lifetime cost is: 25% of cost of ship per year for life of ship, plus purchase cost of ship. At this time, we've life of ship at 50 years. So ...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 3, 2002 2:01 am
1853
... a ... Another arithmo-burp. :> 30,000 / 20 = 1500. 30,000 / 50 = 600. Either way I assume this is based on full-load mass (e.g., total hullspaces * 50. ...
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