Spaceships hull armor…solid?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

And come on guys: NASA says that their Stardust probe in the link above is proof against impactors up to 1 cm.

So let's see if Spaceships uses projectiles as _small_ as 1 cm.

<run and go look> No, it doesn't. The smallest possible projectile (for a VRF gun) is 2cm. Missiles start at 16 cm and go way up.

There is also no speed limit (except c) but that NASA shiled was made to handle particles up to 1cm at the relative speed seen in that comet approach. Whatever that is, I didn't see speed mentioned but speed is crucically important in Spaceships..

Anyway, we do seem to have cleared up that Whipple shields are not efffective armor in Spaceship because they can't handle typical sizes of projectiles.