Re: What would a 'real' spaceship actually look like?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:21 am
Alright, it's about to get sciency, strap in your Trumbles.
In space, there are no molecules, except for a few hydrogen atoms and solar wind, so you could build whatever kind of shape you want. However, if you want your ship to hold under extreme G-Forces, and be able to enter atmosphere, you would not want antennas or any protruding parts. Your ship would also need to be able to travel at extreme speeds to travel through space. The simplest way to achieve such speed would be a blackhole tractor system. Basically, your ship would generate small blackholes around your ship. These blackholes would pull you in whatever direction you need. But that leaves a serious problem: G-Force. Using blackholes to travel that fast would crush you, your ship, and anything inside into a very compact ball. To counteract that, you could generate a blackhole opposite of the one that pulls you. Your ship would need a massive amount of power to generate blackholes, so the powerplant of your ship would probably be a nuclear-fission setup. All of your life, you've heard that the speed of light is the fastest you can go. That's not true. You can go as fast as you want, as long as you have a necessary G-Force counter. Example:
You want to go 100,000 lightyears a second, but you don't want to wait 600 years to slowly accelerate to that speed. In that case, you would just generate a blackhole in front of you, and off you go! But wait, you just experienced 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 G-Force, and now your ship is torn apart. Let's try again.
In order to safely accelerate to 100,000 light years per second, you would need to generate two blackholes of equal strength; one in front of your ship, one behind it. However, you can't just generate them both at the same time, or your ship would be torn in two. You would need to generate the second blackhole IMMEDIATELY after the first, by that I mean 0.0000000000000000000000001 milliseconds. That's just enough time for the first blackhole to spawn, without it tearing apart your molecules, and the second blackhole will be caught in the first one's gravity, saving you from destruction, while traveling at 100,000 LY/S.
Now let's assume that the main type of weaponry used are lasers and missiles. Your spaceship would need to be slightly reflective and and have a heat-absorbing ceramic material underneath a glossed layer of an aluminum/titanium alloy. The alloy would protect you from kinetic impact, and the ceramic layer and gloss would dissipate laser heat. And no windows. Your ship would need cameras and screens, no windows, at all, under any circumstance, absolutely not.
Basically your ship would look similar to an oversized Asp MK II, compact, angled and big.
In space, there are no molecules, except for a few hydrogen atoms and solar wind, so you could build whatever kind of shape you want. However, if you want your ship to hold under extreme G-Forces, and be able to enter atmosphere, you would not want antennas or any protruding parts. Your ship would also need to be able to travel at extreme speeds to travel through space. The simplest way to achieve such speed would be a blackhole tractor system. Basically, your ship would generate small blackholes around your ship. These blackholes would pull you in whatever direction you need. But that leaves a serious problem: G-Force. Using blackholes to travel that fast would crush you, your ship, and anything inside into a very compact ball. To counteract that, you could generate a blackhole opposite of the one that pulls you. Your ship would need a massive amount of power to generate blackholes, so the powerplant of your ship would probably be a nuclear-fission setup. All of your life, you've heard that the speed of light is the fastest you can go. That's not true. You can go as fast as you want, as long as you have a necessary G-Force counter. Example:
You want to go 100,000 lightyears a second, but you don't want to wait 600 years to slowly accelerate to that speed. In that case, you would just generate a blackhole in front of you, and off you go! But wait, you just experienced 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 G-Force, and now your ship is torn apart. Let's try again.
In order to safely accelerate to 100,000 light years per second, you would need to generate two blackholes of equal strength; one in front of your ship, one behind it. However, you can't just generate them both at the same time, or your ship would be torn in two. You would need to generate the second blackhole IMMEDIATELY after the first, by that I mean 0.0000000000000000000000001 milliseconds. That's just enough time for the first blackhole to spawn, without it tearing apart your molecules, and the second blackhole will be caught in the first one's gravity, saving you from destruction, while traveling at 100,000 LY/S.
Now let's assume that the main type of weaponry used are lasers and missiles. Your spaceship would need to be slightly reflective and and have a heat-absorbing ceramic material underneath a glossed layer of an aluminum/titanium alloy. The alloy would protect you from kinetic impact, and the ceramic layer and gloss would dissipate laser heat. And no windows. Your ship would need cameras and screens, no windows, at all, under any circumstance, absolutely not.
Basically your ship would look similar to an oversized Asp MK II, compact, angled and big.
