[Freelance Traveller] May/June 2020 Posted!

[FreeTrav]

The May/June 2020 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download!

This issue features Timothy Collinson's report on TravellerCON/UK, one of the last unrestricted gatherings before the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown. You get roughly half an issue of text and photographs, and our cover this issue is also from Mr Collinson's camera activity there.

The rest of the issue is the usual mix of reviews, stories, adventures, prep tips, spacecraft, and so on; hopefully, something for everyone.

Twilight Stories #1 continues in this issue; rest assured that we will have a separate downloadable PDF of the entire story once its publication in the magazine is complete!

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[heron61]

The download links are to the last issue #98). When I modified the download url to https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2020-0506/FT099-20200506-ANSI-A.pdf it was there, but the link goes to: https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2020-0304/FT098-20200304-ANSI-A.pdf

 

[AndrewW]

The download links are to the last issue #98). When I modified the download url to https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2020-0506/FT099-20200506-ANSI-A.pdf it was there, but the link goes to: https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2020-0304/FT098-20200304-ANSI-A.pdf

I get the May/June 2020 issue from both links. Downloaded it before your post.

Though haven't seen it come through on the RSS feed.

 

[FreeTrav]

I've been known to forget to update the links on .../magazine/, but on the permalink page they should be OK. I did not, however, forget this time. I recommend that if you think you're getting incorrect links to the magazine on the "front page" (not the permalink), you either clear your browser cache, or do a "hard reload/refresh" and make sure you're getting the absolute latest data from the server.

 

[Ursus Maior]

Excellent! I've been waiting for the article on Jump Masking and Interstellar Courses for a while now. By the way, did the author or one of the users here already do the math on the jump shadow the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy would/should produce?

The black hole is about 4.100 ± 0.034 million solar masses, but of course the diameter is much smaller than 4.1 million times that of the sun, since it's a black hole. But since the diameter of an object might not truly be the only thing that influences the jump shadow it casts, super-massive black holes might be a problem for navigation, e. g. for the Zhodani core expeditions.

 

[FreeTrav]

Excellent! I've been waiting for the article on Jump Masking and Interstellar Courses for a while now. By the way, did the author or one of the users here already do the math on the jump shadow the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy would/should produce?

If the author did, it wasn't included in the article.

I'll note that IMTU, half of Jump Masking is nonsense - the only thing that's important is whether you're trying to transition between N-space and J-space within the 100D sphere. If some other 100D sphere is between you and your destination, but your destination isn't within that 100D sphere, that other sphere is irrelevant; it doesn't interfere with your jump.