So yer up to 96% light speed, off to alphCenturi, do they pay internal or external hours.Ship time in hours.?

Question

Passage time in years. Would we need a union? I wish one of you smart guys would figure out a +c stardrive.

Due to relativity, on board ship time would be closer to 5 hours. Just time enough to serve lunch.

Answer 1

"..... I wish one of you smart guys would figure out a +c stardrive."

When Stephen Hawking was visiting Southern California, he stopped by the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Needless to say, they all went ape, and quickly re-wrote that weeks filming to give him a cameo role playing poker with Data, Newton and Einstein. He was rolling around the sets when he came to the warp drive in Engineering. He stopped, looked at it, and said
" I'm working on it".

Hurry Stephen, Hurry.....

Answer 2

This is an unresolved legal question. There's no precedent by which a court would decide whether to require a company to pay ship hours or standard reference hours to travelling astronauts. So you might want to be crafty in initiating the first relevant legal action. Use astronauts who have some kind of profound legal favoritism working on their behalf. Jews, for example. After they go through the courts to wrangle "standard reference" compensation for themselves, immediately follow their case with another case of an identical nature, except with White, male gentiles seeking compensation on the same terms. If the court seems less inclined to favor them than the Jews in the earlier case, remind the court that there now exists a precedent. If the court seems to have become suddenly afflicted with deafness when you cite the precedent, start a program of telling the whole world that Jews get special favors from the law courts that other kinds of people just can't get. Maybe that will embarrass the courts enough either to rule your way or to reverse themselves in the prior case.

Answer 3

Since it would take slightly over 9 years to make the round trip, assuming no layover in the Alpha C airport or holdups in Customs... You'd have to assume these travellers would be paid a yearly salary, just to keep administrative costs down.

Some, however, such as private trade entities that went along as entrepreneurs to sell their goods and services to the shipping company and/or the travellers would not be paid except in the revenue from their own sales. A 4.5 year one way trip would require replenishable food sources, so one of those private entities might be a hydroponic farmer. Another might be a barber/cosmetologist, or musicians, or entertainers.... 4.5 years is a long time without a laugh... ;-)

Answer 4

Management would go for ship time, of course.