So 5 displacement tons, will support 10 people for 3 weeks without difficulty....and by that ESTIMATE 0.2 Dtons per person, is as close as i can get to an accurate volume, per person,of life support. Including Food, water, air, and machinery to support that person. Yes, I modeled this with help fro...

What this means is that yes it's likely on earth-like planets that tall, wide-stemmed plant like organisms with broad branches and sun-catching leaf or frond-like features will exist, but whether they look more like deciduous trees, conifers, palms, fern trees or bamboo or none of the above in part...

So 5 displacement tons, will support 10 people for 3 weeks without difficulty....and by that ESTIMATE 0.2 Dtons per person, is as close as i can get to an accurate volume, per person,of life support. Including Food, water, air, and machinery to support that person. Yes, I modeled this with help fro...

I It seems to be like the difference between buying the latest and greatest Intel chip with more processors than last year's model versus buying last year's model today, which hasn't changed in how many processors it has on a given chip, but has decreased in price. You are 100% correct. These rules...

Condottiere wrote:I'm thinking that like grav drives, pressor beams create that thrust directly from and away from the oriiginating device.

Grav drives, to work, would have to create a curvature for the ship to "fall into". In front of the direction of motion. Grav drives don't create "thrust".

The base unit is not so large or costly that one wouldn't have multiple systems. In fact cost wise, if I understand it right, it's the same cost to add two people to a single system as to add an addition system for every two people. This makes me wonder why it takes 2/7th (hope I got that right) th...

Lets start with a clarification. "Standard Stateroom/corridor/lounge/dining room tonnage costs Cr80,000/Ton." Does this include the bridge, sick bays, lab space and other spaces people might occupy? No. Just spaces that aren't otherwise listed. (Dining facilities, recreation areas, etc. ) The ones ...

Reynard wrote:Unless TL 12 has matter teleporters to move gases and liquids around, circulation still needs certain minimal dimensions of ducts and piping for efficiency.

Of course. No said there were matter teleporters.

I wasn't advocating that life support should be embedded in each stateroom, just that it shouldn't be concentrated in one spot, and should be distributed evenly across the spaceship, so that all of it couldn't be taken out by any single event. Not feasible to be "distributed evenly across the space...

A) I believe this is the first reference to a "small" ship. I said "unless the ship were huge". I said it in another way. Not in the original post. Whatever. It is irrelevant as it would NOT add significantly to the existing "plumbing" of any ship over what it would take in a "decentralized" config...

How about extracting air from asteroid rocks? It's mentioned in Mote. No need. In a complete recycle system you just crack the O2 from the exhaled CO2. There are no disposable filters, absorbers, et al needed in a higher tech system. It could be designed today. When Marc wrote Trav he didn't even k...

Reynard wrote:"Similar worlds", as in all Earth-like worlds?

I'll quote what I wrote. "if you have an "Earth like" world. You will probably end up with life that gets structured accordingly..."

QUESTION : How is it provided to all the spaces throughout the ship? Small high pressure pipes (for real engineering reasons in space that I don't have time to elaborate on. Having EACH stateroom contain LS means that FROM each stateroom you would ALSO need these pipes to go to all other parts of t...

That suggests parallel evolution to an extreme No. It suggests that form follows functional requirements. Example: if you want to create lift, the design HAS to conform to aeronautics principles. THEREFORE, you are confined to certain FORMS. THUS, wings on creatures that come from similar worlds WI...

Spaceships: Armaments Tractor and pressor beams are just focussed gravitation, artificial gravitation field in the case for tractor beams, that makes targets fall towards it, and gravitational thrust for pressor beams, which should make them available at tech level nine. Gravity is caused by a curv...

A large number of worlds are still very terran friendly considering how nearly every world with shirt sleeve environments look like there was a lot of transplantation from Earth. Form follows FUNCTIONAL requirements. Even for biologicals. If you have an "Earth like" world. You will probably end up ...

Anyway, back to the subject of the thread... Well said. How about taking your own advice and responding to legitimate questions and feedback instead of spending your time playing in the muck with what you call trolls? I answered your question I thought. What didn't you understand about the absurdit...

It sounds like you are criticizing the ducting? No, I'm criticizing the insanity of stating that it would ADD miles of ducting on something like a Free Trader. If each stateroom had LS machinery it would have to run from there to all non-stateroom areas. Hence, he couldn't defend the insanity. (he ...

ShawnDriscoll wrote:Waste of ship energy providing life-support for attic space. Still have to provide hot/cold air to the staterooms somehow.

Um, sure.

phavoc wrote:
So stating "it's in the rules" is not really an accurate statement. It's one way to interpret a broken rule. Which makes it, essentially, a house rule.

Yes, since its a rule YOU don't like it is really a house rule.