So, I was doing some rough calculations on trying to figure out the speed of the Puddlejumpers. I used some of the offhanded information from Defiant One, made some guesses I thought reasonable, and came up with some very rough numbers.
The planet that the Wraith ship was crashed on was "other side of the solar system" from Atlantis, and it took about 15 hours to get there in the Jumper. We know this planet was in the habitable band, as it was livable, so it's distance may simply be because the planet was in opposition to Atlantis at the moment, and thus beyond the sun, or "other side of the solar system." Let's assume it's analagous to Venus is in our Solar system. Venus can get as much as 1.75 AU's away when in opposition to Earth, so we can use that as a baseline. For the purposes of this thought, I put this unnamed planet a rounded out 2 AU's away from Atlantis.
Now, 2 AU's is roughly 300,000,000 km, and it took 15 hours to get there. That means the Jumper was moving 20,000,000 kph. For the sake of this thought experiment, I converted down to it's kps, which is about 5500 (rounding here). The Speed of Light is about 300,000 kps (a little less, it's actually about 299792.458 kps), which would make the speed the Puddlejumper was travelling at about 1.8% of c. If we assume that Doctor Weir was rounding out the 15 hour statement, then we might be able to guess that the Jumper has a top speed around 2% of light speed.
Of course, I am making a great many assumptions here, and rounding out a good deal too, so I could be completely off. However, it would fit with the 844 years that Sheppard told McKay it would take a Jumper to get to him on the fogworld in "Home." That would place Fogwold at around 16.88 light years from Atlantis... quite a reasonable distance for a star to be away from Atlantis.
Man... I want me a PuddleJumper.
-IMF
The planet that the Wraith ship was crashed on was "other side of the solar system" from Atlantis, and it took about 15 hours to get there in the Jumper. We know this planet was in the habitable band, as it was livable, so it's distance may simply be because the planet was in opposition to Atlantis at the moment, and thus beyond the sun, or "other side of the solar system." Let's assume it's analagous to Venus is in our Solar system. Venus can get as much as 1.75 AU's away when in opposition to Earth, so we can use that as a baseline. For the purposes of this thought, I put this unnamed planet a rounded out 2 AU's away from Atlantis.
Now, 2 AU's is roughly 300,000,000 km, and it took 15 hours to get there. That means the Jumper was moving 20,000,000 kph. For the sake of this thought experiment, I converted down to it's kps, which is about 5500 (rounding here). The Speed of Light is about 300,000 kps (a little less, it's actually about 299792.458 kps), which would make the speed the Puddlejumper was travelling at about 1.8% of c. If we assume that Doctor Weir was rounding out the 15 hour statement, then we might be able to guess that the Jumper has a top speed around 2% of light speed.
Of course, I am making a great many assumptions here, and rounding out a good deal too, so I could be completely off. However, it would fit with the 844 years that Sheppard told McKay it would take a Jumper to get to him on the fogworld in "Home." That would place Fogwold at around 16.88 light years from Atlantis... quite a reasonable distance for a star to be away from Atlantis.
Man... I want me a PuddleJumper.
-IMF
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