Oolite Bulletins

@ Greyth: I fail to see the connection between exhaust plumes and spheres.

@ El Viejo: Unfortunately only the width and height of exhaust plumes can be reduced (or manipulated at all). Their length depends on ship speed only. The faster the ship, the longer the plume becomes.

BASH!

DaddyHoggy wrote:

It is generally accepted, given the strange non-Newtonian physics of Oolite ship flight, that the stuff coming out the back of the ship is NOT reaction mass that is pushing the ship forward, but simply a stream of exotic particles (some of which emit light in the visible spectrum) channelled away from the equally exotic engines that make E/Oolite ships fly - I think quite a few commanders (for example - Another_Commander?) turn the engine exhausts off completely, simply because in their Ooniverse they're not required to justify/rationalise the forward flight of the ships.

I'm quite happy with that reasoning, but to me, the logical extension of that is that the bigger/faster ships would still have bigger/more engines which would still require more particle emissions and therefore more exhausts...

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@Commander McLane - in all probability there isn't one I must have misconstrued.

Mauiby de Fug wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

It is generally accepted, given the strange non-Newtonian physics of Oolite ship flight, that the stuff coming out the back of the ship is NOT reaction mass that is pushing the ship forward, but simply a stream of exotic particles (some of which emit light in the visible spectrum) channelled away from the equally exotic engines that make E/Oolite ships fly - I think quite a few commanders (for example - Another_Commander?) turn the engine exhausts off completely, simply because in their Ooniverse they're not required to justify/rationalise the forward flight of the ships.

I'm quite happy with that reasoning, but to me, the logical extension of that is that the bigger/faster ships would still have bigger/more engines which would still require more particle emissions and therefore more exhausts...

Depends on what Oolitian Physics you apply to your Ooniverse - in mine (a bit like EE Doc Smiths Lensman universe) there's a magic figure where there's no power gain from building a bigger engine (in Doc Smith's universe the very fastest ships are 90% engine with almost no weapons or crew space), so in my Ooniverse there's a maximum engine output and therefore a maximum emission flux - it may be configured to be discharged through multiple ports for aesthetic and/or configuration purposes but that's all.

But, that's my Ooniverse and I don't build ships - so I don't really have any say...

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mandoman wrote:

BigBoy.

Now that one's just weird!