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Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - internet stuff

What time period is this whole thing happening? If it's sufficiently far enough in the future, it's easy to justify a much quicker trip than a week. Technological advances could easily account for a trip that would currently take as much as a week being much shorter.

Also, in looking up the Lagrange points, I found this information. Based on it, IMO L1 is a really bad location for the station, due to being in continuous eclipse of the sun relative to Earth, L2 is just as bad as the station would then be in eternal night due to the sun being eclipsed by the sun, L3 is on the other side of Earth's orbit, and L1-L3 are very unstable locations, requiring frequent velocity corrections to maintain position.

The above assumes that we are talking about the Earth-Sun Lagrange points, and not the Earth-Moon ones, which are much closer, as EM L3, L4, and L5 are all ~ the distance to the Moon.

In any case, my suggestion is:

1) Place lojgugde at EML4 or EML5. These three locations are close to the Earth, and have the lowest need for orbital correction, making either the optimal (IMO) location for a station.

2) With rocket science circa 1960's, EML4 and EML5 are three days away. Either technology has advanced enough that the trip is much shorter, the trip is edited to remove things like sleeping, or only the arrival (last 4 hours or so) is shown.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:02 PM, CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:
On 20 Jul 2010, at 07:48, Lindar wrote:

> So let's assume it takes a week to arrive there... should we script
> that into the show, or what?

I'm torn on that, I want it to be scientifically accurate where possible but at the same time I want to keep the pace of change up, at least for the first episode or two.  Maybe it can be a week but conveniently the interim details are kept at a minimum so the characters reach the Lojgugde station at the end of the first episode.

I've fleshed out most of Act 1 Scene 3 now, apart from the history bit.

Alpha and Beta are still needing names.  Can the Director do some concept artwork, it might stimulate us collectively to think of good names?

kozmikreis

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