Re: Looking for a "real-time interstellar navigation" program

From: Jeremy <earth1dome1_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:25:30 -0800
Message-ID: <5111E94A.7010408@yahoo.com>
On 13-02-05 03:33 PM, Craig Taylor wrote:
> I wonder what the tod clock on the c64 goes up to..... (or $ti)
>
> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Zoran Davidovac
>  > <zoran.davidovac@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> could it be visible solar system ?
>  >
>  > No.  This was a very short BASIC program that was, essentially, a
>  > smart-assed joke.
>  >
>  > You "travelled" to another star at some fixed speed, could have been
>  > 1c, could have  been much slower.  The gag is that without warp
>  > drive, are you going to sit there, watching your computer tick down
>  > the entire distance in real time?  I wanted to find it to see if the code
>  > even _does_ have an "arrival" routine (vs just a nearly-never-
>  > ending countdown timer scaled in years).
>  >
>  > -ethan

Sure would love to know that one. Sounds like a lot of fun checking out 
in the program dump.... -- Jeremy


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