How Fast Are Spaceships In 'The Expanse'?

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  @ayasano6646 · 9 years ago

  Silly Scott, you know all fictional spacecraft travel at the Speed of Plot.

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  @BigBoyMemeZone · 7 years ago

  &quot;How does the Epstein drive work?&quot;<br>&quot;Very well. Very efficiently.&quot;

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  @rama_iam · 9 years ago

  I really liked that they didn&apos;t use some &quot;magical&quot; device that generates artificial gravity, instead the ship is constantly accelerating and decelerating.

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  @Horesmi · 9 years ago

  -How fast is the production of &apos;The Expanse&apos;?<br>-WAY. TOO. SLOW.

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  @wolfbyte3171 · 9 years ago

  During the time of the Expanse, if you have a powerful telescope, you can still see his little yacht speeding away at a good percentage of the speed of light. The longest, most spectacular funeral in history.<br><br>Fortunately, his plans for the drive were stored on his home computer.

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  @Beer_Dad1975 · 8 years ago

  According to the book Eros was accelerating at over 30g by the time the Rosi gave up the chase.

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  @SoccerBoyAP · 9 years ago

  The Expanse started out as a MMO??!!! <br>Uhm we need that MMO, you know now that the show and books have some good popularity.

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  @BradiKal61 · 6 years ago

  You scored big points with me when you referenced Niven&apos;s universe. &nbsp;<br>Niven was one of the first hard scifi authors to not treat spacecraft like magic cars and took deceleration and relativistic effects into account.

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  @D00kerT · 4 years ago

  It really puts the speed of light into perspective that even at one of the furthest distances one could travel in The Expanse solar system, the fastest they&apos;d be going is less than 1% the speed of light! Unreal!

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  @pauldonlin3439 · 9 years ago

  As an avid KSP player, I thought the same thing during the &quot;I&apos;ll just gravity assist down to Ganymede.&quot; My thought: yeah, great, that&apos;ll take weeks, even if the moons are aligned.

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  @Torus2112 · 8 years ago

  If the &quot;18 days to cross the solar system&quot; estimate is right then that actually makes the Expanse&apos;s history of space travel line up with ocean travel IRL. Right now IIRC it takes about three months to get to Mars, which is comparable to an Atlantic crossing in the 18th century (I do believe that if Mars was as desirable as North America we&apos;d be there by now). They don&apos;t say how fast early fusion drives were but as you said modern ships can travel the system in times comparable to ocean voyages now, basically paralleling the impact of steamships IRL.

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  @davidw5993 · 7 years ago

  the best moment was when that dude got liquefied when he hit the ring barrier thank God I wasn&apos;t drinking coffee or I&apos;d have needed a new laptop 😄

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