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I think I'd like to see the planetary landing on some of the bigger ships...spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:43 amwhats your guess at the biggest and the smallest ship in this youtube video??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc
Even though they typically don't fly in an atmosphere, I think it's evocative of speed when you have wedge shaped or otherwise 'aerodynamic' forms. That said, one of my favourites is the TIE fighter design which (without doing the maths) I'd imagine would perform terribly in an atmosphere comparable to Earth's. Looks cool though... and it's hard to top looking cool
There is a point to it that I cannot follow.Redspear wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:17 pmEven though they typically don't fly in an atmosphere, I think it's evocative of speed when you have wedge shaped or otherwise 'aerodynamic' forms. That said, one of my favourites is the TIE fighter design which (without doing the maths) I'd imagine would perform terribly in an atmosphere comparable to Earth's. Looks cool though... and it's hard to top looking cool
You're not missing much
It's easy to forget that the design of a vehicle is matched not only to its environment but also to its pilot.hiran wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:13 pmLooking at surface that is exposed to the subarctic temperatures of space, all letter-kinds-of rays or particles of whatever size I'd try to trim surface vs volume. For a given surface maximise volume, or for a given volume minimize surface. This way the Borg had done a quite well job to come up just with a cube. And the next candidate is probably just a sphere.
Space is very very cold, but it's also a vacuum, and an excellent insulator. Overheating is as much a problem in space as staying warm; the only way you can lose heat is by radiation, so having two big radiator panels for your twin ion engines might not be such a bad idea.hiran wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:13 pmLooking at surface that is exposed to the subarctic temperatures of space, all letter-kinds-of rays or particles of whatever size I'd try to trim surface vs volume. For a given surface maximise volume, or for a given volume minimize surface. This way the Borg had done a quite well job to come up just with a cube. And the next candidate is probably just a sphere.
Good point. But radiators are not always needed, so I'd like to have retractable radiators. Maybe as well as retractable scoops that can munch too large a debris into scoopable units (sounds like a mouth with teeth). All in all my ship would now look like a globefish with rockets instead of fins.Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:07 pmSpace is very very cold, but it's also a vacuum, and an excellent insulator. Overheating is as much a problem in space as staying warm; the only way you can lose heat is by radiation, so having two big radiator panels for your twin ion engines might not be such a bad idea.hiran wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:13 pmLooking at surface that is exposed to the subarctic temperatures of space, all letter-kinds-of rays or particles of whatever size I'd try to trim surface vs volume. For a given surface maximise volume, or for a given volume minimize surface. This way the Borg had done a quite well job to come up just with a cube. And the next candidate is probably just a sphere.
