07-27-2021, 10:13 AM | #21 |
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Re: Spaceships: How to take off?
Understanding how something works may just cause you to realize that what you want to do is impossible.
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07-27-2021, 10:49 AM | #22 |
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Re: Spaceships: How to take off?
Any reason the launch from water trick used with some frequency in fiction wouldn't cover that?
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07-27-2021, 11:43 AM | #23 |
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Re: Spaceships: How to take off?
Just produces an obnoxious safe distance. A 100 ton ship with 200 tons of thrust is producing 400 GW, which is brighter and hotter than the sun at a distance of ten kilometers (and being nearly a point source, will probably cause vision damage at hundreds to thousands).
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07-27-2021, 12:11 PM | #24 | |
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07-27-2021, 12:14 PM | #25 | |
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It potentially could be better than any other hard science system but not by as much as you might hope.
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07-27-2021, 12:52 PM | #27 | |
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Still, it's not out of this world far fetched. As a basis for a science fiction campaign, I can think of other things (e.g. FTL, inertial dampers, etc..) that are far far more far fetched. |
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07-27-2021, 12:54 PM | #28 |
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Re: Spaceships: How to take off?
You mean things like "A metric ton of antimatter will explode for 43 gigatons."?
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