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wheresbasky?

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
From the basic info we have? starting from LV426.. if it took over 57 years for Ripley's message(sent out at the end of 'Alien') to reach the planet Fury (remember the scene at the end of Alien 3) on the radio in the escape craft??? just how far into space has mankind got? a question was raised in an earlier post regarding why Weyland had not registered the derelict on LV426 could it be that earth was far enough away from there to have not received Ripley's message yet? can anyone remember if a journey time to LV426 was mentioned in Aliens at all?? do we have any rocket scientists on the forum to do the Math?
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Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
After they leave LV-426 Lambert says 10 months to get back to earth. The Zeta Reticuli star system that they are supposedly near or in is about 39 light years from earth. How they are achieving such a quick journey is a mystery.

Spartacus

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
It has to be ten months! This would be the ONLY logical estimate. Period. The film made it clear that they were on the Cusp of Zeta2reticuli.

anovak1979

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
@wheresbasky? Actually, that scene in the end of Alien 3 is a recording from the end of Alien that Ripley made. If you remember back to Aliens Gorman wanted the marines to listen to Ripley's logs from her escape from the Nostromo. I hope this helps. :)

anovak1979

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Oh, but as far as your other part of your question, I'm just as lost as you are. Hahaha.

BellaisanAlien

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
@anovak1979, yep that's right. I always assumed it was a reference back to the remainder of the escape pod

Hukerlover

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Guys I think the recording was a A referance to Alien b Was a point to say Ripley has died (signing out) Sparky is the one to ask his knowledge on all things Alien is amazing

Guest

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Zeta Ret 37 LY or 11.35 parsecs. 10 months travel time from their course change from Thedus to Earth. Lambert says they are roughly half way home. Thedus would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 74 LYs from Sol. If the speed of light in a vacuum is 186000 miles per second or 669.6 million miles per hour. In a standard year moving at just C or the speed of light the Nostromo could cover 5,785,344,000,000 miles. If Zeta Reticulae is 37 LYs from Sol that's 214,057,728,000,000 Two hundred fourteen trillion, fifty seven billion seven hundred and twenty eight million miles from Sol. If the Nostromo can do that distance in just 10 months (at just C that's 4,821,120,000,000 miles in 10 30 day months it would have taken them 444.48 months just to reach our solar system) she would have had to accelerate to more than 10 times that velocity to accomplish that goal, that's some incredible feat of engineering

Ghost Solitare

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Zeta Ret 37 LY or 11.35 parsecs. 10 months travel time from their course change from Thedus to Earth. Lambert says they are roughly half way home. Thedus would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 74 LYs from Sol. If the speed of light in a vacuum is 186000 miles per second or 669.6 million miles per hour. In a standard year moving at just C or the speed of light the Nostromo could cover 5,785,344,000,000 miles. If Zeta Reticulae is 37 LYs from Sol that's 214,057,728,000,000 Two hundred fourteen trillion, fifty seven billion seven hundred and twenty eight million miles from Sol. If the Nostromo can do that distance in just 10 months (at just C that's 4,821,120,000,000 miles in 10 30 day months it would have taken them 444.48 months just to reach our solar system) she would have had to accelerate to more than 44.4 times that velocity to accomplish that goal, that's some incredible feat of engineering.

wheresbasky?

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
@Ghost Solitare Wow that's a lot of numbers!!! I take it they have not got FTL capabilities? so What Tech are they using to cover that kind of distance in such a short time frame @ Anovak 1979 thanks for clearing that up!!! bit disappointed that it was just a recording,thought it was a nice touch that it appeared to be a signal drifting through space time that caught up with Ripley at the end of her story! After all that though how come if LV426 was surveyed(was brought up during Ripley's debrief at company HQ in Aliens) why didn't they spot the derelict? did this ever get cleared up in other posts?

Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Well if they are going Faster than the speed of light then they do have FTL capabilities.

wheresbasky?

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
so do they have to jump from Plaid to ludicrus speed (spaceballs reference there)

wheresbasky?

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
so how many light years out has mankind got then, do we think?

Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Did anyone wonder how gravity was achieved on the Nostromo? These are just things we must accept and move on else the movie will be 35732908503 hours long and mostly talk of equations. Man, I sure don't want to see a math class in 3D : )

Biomechanic

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
Ghost Solitaire [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo]Blinded me with Science[/url]

skyguy1054

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes.

ZetaReticuli

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
I find all this SO many light years from home and FLT and time dilation VERY scary. I'm sure this will be factored in to the film's more tense moments.

wheresbasky?

MemberOvomorph02/17/2012
so the reason they managed to travel great distances through space, in such a short time was purely clever editing at Fox!!! I think NASA could learn a thing or two from them!!!
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