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Distance to Planet Ork, erm.....
Given that Mork and Orson have realtime conversations, and Mork took Mindy to Ork, the distance can't be too terribly far. The lag is shown to be about 0.5-1 second, based upon the comedic beat timing of Williams and Winters.
Even if we assume a million times the speed of light, comm lag is 1 sec per 11.something light-days... roughly 1/135 the distance to Alpha C.
So if we presume that Ork can produce billion (1E9) times the speed of light comms, that's still only 319.4 LY radius - not even close to out of our spiral arm. At Trillion times light (1E12), it could be anywhere in the galaxy, or on one of the nearby dwarf galaxies orbiting/interpenetrating it.
So, given that travel isn't instant, and it takes about a day to fly to/from Ork and most systems of Sci-Fi FTL give under a 1 million to one advantage to communications speeds over ships (and many give a 1:1 ratio)... is probably within the same quarter of the galaxy, and I'd suspect about 100 light years away. |
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"Distance to Planet Ork, erm.....
Given that Mork and Orson have realtime conversations, and Mork took Mindy to Ork, the distance can't be too terribly far. The lag is shown to be about 0.5-1 second, based upon the comedic beat timing of Williams and Winters.
Even if we assume a million times the speed of light, comm lag is 1 sec per 11.something light-days... roughly 1/135 the distance to Alpha C.
So if we presume that Ork can produce billion (1E9) times the speed of light comms, that's still only 319.4 LY radius - not even close to out of our spiral arm. At Trillion times light (1E12), it could be anywhere in the galaxy, or on one of the nearby dwarf galaxies orbiting/interpenetrating it.
So, given that travel isn't instant, and it takes about a day to fly to/from Ork and most systems of Sci-Fi FTL give under a 1 million to one advantage to communications speeds over ships (and many give a 1:1 ratio)... is probably within the same quarter of the galaxy, and I'd suspect about 100 light years away."
I think your overthinking this and because you are, your actually a complete Galaxy out  |
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"Distance to Planet Ork, erm.....
Given that Mork and Orson have realtime conversations, and Mork took Mindy to Ork, the distance can't be too terribly far. The lag is shown to be about 0.5-1 second, based upon the comedic beat timing of Williams and Winters.
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 haven't seen Mork and Mindy for years loved that programme, I could never do the hand finger thing.
Its about correct location give or take a postcode or a few |
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I rarely have my postcode in the area I live in as prefer not to meet locally and generally meet at clubs or parties anyway which can be all over the country.
I also am bored to tears of the guys locally who post the same shit in their status every 5 minutes or the repeated boner photos, and find I come across nicer and fresher guys by moving my postcode around  |
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"I rarely have my postcode in the area I live in as prefer not to meet locally and generally meet at clubs or parties anyway which can be all over the country.
I also am bored to tears of the guys locally who post the same shit in their status every 5 minutes or the repeated boner photos, and find I come across nicer and fresher guys by moving my postcode around "
More people should do this. It really does make a difference, even changing it by 10 miles. Fab has a strange geographical postcode system in some counties. It shows you up in new searches. |
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