Re: [f-cpu] way off topic

[Juergen Goeritz <goeritz@oekomm.de>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Glenn Alexander wrote:
> > You don't really
> > need a higher precision than 64 bit. Maybe that will change for
> > galaxy navigation in the future 
> > 
> Well, in Universe A (where I base a good deal of my SF writing) the only 
> thing powerful enough for that is an organic brain which has to be wired into 
> the nav comp - physically wired in for a human brain! (Unless you are a major 
> government with huge ships - then you can get away with mega-expensive 
> hardware). More than a few kilometres off arc per lightyear (jock talk) will 
> scramble the atoms of the moving object. As pilot Jodie said in book 1 
> (almost finished): "What comes out the other end is a lump of metal with some 
> organic mush distributed through it." In book two (one third finished), Steve 
> has to experience a jump on autopilot and we get to experience the effect in 
> action.
> 
> I agree: untill we start launching space-probes, 64 bit FP seems fine. But 
> the option for more will be there when we do build the F-rocket (FR-1).

Error is human - maybe we live in an evolution based
simulation for optimization? Who knows how our senses
are really working? :-)

Hmh, don't think I want to live in this universe A instead.
But the thought of a far distant space ship is enticing...

JG

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