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Someone asked for a Voyager countdown (displaying the distance to Earth) some time ago - well, I've created one with JavaScript, based on my original Stardate script. It is based on my new figures for Voyager's route I explained to you recently. However, the principle is pretty easy: the distance after the last jump (in VC) is used as a base reference, and from this figure, the percentage of the annual average distance covered by Voyager (438) already travelled at the current stardate is deducted. Therefore, the counter works properly until the next jump, then, it has to be readjusted.
But, you don't believe in my figures, because you think they are the work of evil? No problem: the script can be adapted very easily to your favorite distances, if you like to use it: simply change the 438 to your annual average distance and the 30724 by your calculated distance to Earth after VC.
[This message has been edited by Chris (edited December 13, 1999).]
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Yes, I happened to notice that script a few days ago on your site. I think I was the one talking about a countdown device, and that just happens to be exactly what I was talking about. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of Java, so I doubt I'll be able to alter the script to my own calculations. (I just finished them, I'll probably post them in their entirety after dinner.)
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Ah... The code is a lot easier to read when its not amidst UBB stuff.
A few suggestions to improve accuracy, though:
A year should be counted as 365.25 days, at the very least.
When exactly does this clock begin counting down from? It seems as though the distance given in the clock is a bit lower than it should be. Ideally, it should begin counting down from the original airdate of "The Voyager Conspiracy."
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Well, since an entire year on the show is contracted into about nine months on TV, the stardate can't keep accurate time w/ the show. Otherwise, the counter would hit the end of the year in May and have to wait until September to start up again.
I also don't think the stardate system is based on a 365.25 day-long year. Otherwise, by the time a leap day rolls around, the stardate would be off from the calendar date by a full day. I think 1000 stardates are equal to the time from January 1 to January 1, however long that is in the given year.
I realize SF would have no reason to do this, but it's not like they have any reason to base the stardates on the Earth calendar, anyway. (And, according to "Data's Day", the stardates are canonically proven to not be based on the Earth calendar, but I doubt many people would want to accept that.)
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I'm impressed with your web page, it looks very well done. My web pages always turn out looking like crap ammature projects so I never give anyone the urls.
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