Badz: What you’re forgetting is that you can’t just keep accelerating all the way to Mars, or you’ll be going bleemin’ fast. So you have to accelerate halfway, flip around, and decelerate the rest of the way.
It’s entirely possible that I was wrong, because I did the calculation in about 1 minute using the Windows calculator. I probably forgot a unit conversion or something.
I didn’t forget that. I figured the amount of time to get to midpoint, and then doubled that. If we were just trying to figure out how long it would take to get to Mars without stopping it would have been much quicker. My calculations showed you can travel almost 1 AU in 48 hours with 1 G constant boost.
Here’s the notes from last night I made while doing some figuring, they might be helpful.
35280 m/s after one hour
35280 m/s = 127,008 km/hr (78,922.77 mph)
Speed after 24 hours - 3,048,192 km/hr
Distance travelled after 24 hours - 36,578,304 km.
Speed after 48 hours - 6,096,384 km/hr
Distance travelled during second 24 hours - 109,734,912 km
Total distance travelled during first 48 hours - 146,313,216 km
I may have made a dumb mistake in there, but the figures seem to match up with what I remember from various SF stories with constant boost ships.
Hell no! 8^)