Recent content by OriginalCaruso

I like throwing in vignettes which can be completed with a single session or two. As an example: Travellers receive a distress signal from a fuel skimmer having to intercept the skimmer before it gets sucked deep down into the atmosphere before the hull blows. Comms are intermittent and the...

Bingo Affirmation is preferable to critique which should only be used to explain and bring understanding. Getting back on-track: There are two main games conventions I attend, Games Expo mid-year at the NEC and Dragonmeet end Nov (I am attending 29th Nov this year). Seems to me these events...

How many people buy games because of the art? Not me. I’d rather have written content - accepting I may be odd in not appreciating the art. I bought the latest D&D Players Handbook for the content and find the art an unwelcome distraction

This ^^^

Doesn't the conversation in this thread render 5FW impossible...?

Would be helpful to know proposed days / times

Nice edit after your original rude and ignorant original response, which neatly illustrates how difficult detection at range is, as opposed to your earlier posts within this thread.

Facile answer and you should do better than be rude and ignorant To passively scan out to the minimum orbit of Pluto assuming a beam width of 0.1 degrees results in an angular distance of ~7.5M km at Pluto. Meaning an object can be anywhere within the 7.5M km arc, the calculation does not...

Ah but you haven’t answered the question asked with the reasonable constraints proposed. What conclusion should I draw?

I’m fascinated by your assertion @MarcusIII and I’d like to understand the physics behind your calculations For simplicity sake, let’s limit the star system to Sol, limit the whole sky scan to the minimum orbit of Pluto and further assume we are observing only. How long would the full sky scan...

Earth diameter is just under 8000 miles therefore 100 diameters is 800,000 miles, around 3x the distance to the moon. Around1% of the distance to Mars which is 55M miles at closest approach

That's where the dog comes in handy...

I refer to RADAR because that's what I know in the real world, and the physics translate to space games in general The Geiger counter analog is useful - the source is somewhere "out there" and the detector could be directionally sensitive. However, nothing moves faster than the speed of light...

Round trip RADAR return time for 1 nautical mile is 12.35 microseconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_mile Radiated power requirements square to double the range within atmosphere, I don’t have the physics for vacuum. Antenna rotation speed is also a factor, antenna have a beam width...

I’m trying to not let the physics get in the way of a good story :) Thanks for all the contributions to this thread, I am enjoying the conversation