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- adjective science fiction At less than the
speed of light .
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Examples
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Of course, at sub-light speeds, it would take years to get anywhere and Teal'c and O'Neill would be long dead before the ship reached it's destination.
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With these techniques, the ship is always moving at sub-light speed in its local frame.
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Of course, at sub-light speeds, it would take years to get anywhere and Teal'c and O'Neill would be long dead before the ship reached it's destination.
September 2009 2009
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As all travel is done at sub-light speeds, with ftl not possible, the events of travelling between systems is done in tens and hundreds of years of subjective time.
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds Mark 2008
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Besides, you should be grateful that you were assigned to the Earth-Mars sub-light corridors.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Grow small sub-light fast planetsmashers indetectable by humans.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 10.1 of 31.1 2009
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Had we not stopped him, and had a UFO actually crashed in Iraq, he could have back-engineered their technology and would now be at a point where his zero-point energy sub-light orbital plasma cannons could fire on any city in the world with nothing more than a thought from his cybernetically altered super-evil-genius brain.
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Put it this way: if you read a book set inside a sub-light starship big enough to contain a civilisation who've forgotten they're on a journey, at some point you're going to expect somebody to want to dig a hole through the skin of the world and see what's on the other side.
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Humanity sends sub-light ships to build wormholes for ftl to be possible; a deep time mission with safeguards to insure its imperative survives for billions of years, we follow one of the original crew who retained her humanity in the face of billions of years objective, though a regular lifetime subjective, her shipboard "son" and the AI in charge as they encounter something quite unusual.
Archive 2009-06-01 Cindy 2009
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Besides, you should be grateful that you were assigned to the Earth-Mars sub-light corridors.
365 tomorrows » Sol-DOT : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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