08-26-2015, 11:43 AM | #41 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Eh, that depends on your definition of 'fight', and if you have limited delta-V they may just be coasting. Realistically, space combat tends towards the winner being determined when forces are allocated, and the battle is when you resolve the inevitable (which, despite being inevitable, may be unknown to both parties).
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08-26-2015, 11:54 AM | #42 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Quite possibly, but 'normal vision' includes Telescopic or highly Acute vision that could spot ships, under the right circumstances, at quite long range.
Under typical circumstances that doesn't matter since the thermal IR sensor will have spotted the target much earlier than that.
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08-26-2015, 12:06 PM | #43 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Doubtful that the Mark I eyeball is used for detection in space. Cameras with telescopes, however, are likely.
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08-26-2015, 12:18 PM | #44 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Probably not. But I do remember "visual" being mentioned.
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08-26-2015, 12:33 PM | #45 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Hardly every single time. Or even most of the time.
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08-26-2015, 12:44 PM | #46 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
'Visual' means something using the visual spectrum, not the mark I eyeball in particular.
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08-26-2015, 12:46 PM | #47 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Yeah, 99% of the time when physics says 'X is impossible', X is actually impossible. However, that's boring so no-one remembers those instances.
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08-26-2015, 01:25 PM | #48 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
It's not what you think.
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
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