Ship Design Philosophy

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Inspiration: Aliens: UD-4 Cheyenne Dropship | Ship Breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4imdgztCY

The stealth aspect is interesting, though you have to wonder how that's maintained with the mothership in orbit, unless it glides in an intercept course with the planetary body, before dropping in for Tea.

 

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Spaceships: Hulls and The Future of Tank Armor

It's a lot harder to speculate on what armor tanks will use in the future, there aren't nearly as many interesting developments or projects, but I did find a few I could talk about. I found one development for passive armor and one for reactive armor, and I also talk about how I think future tanks will try to make their armor as effective as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkmjf8_xrA

Energy requirement isn't really an issue, though you have to wonder if there's no power to bonded superdense, does it become just plain superdense? You ion blast a specific point of the hull, shortcircuiting the energy grid, and follow up with ordnance or energy weapons.

 

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Inspiration: The Assault on Thoth Station Battle Analysis | The Expanse

The Assault on Thoth Station was a battle that seemed to end before it started - it was short - but the tactics employed on the part of the mission crew were unique and are worth taking a closer look at. In Today's video we are going to do just that as well as look into the story behind this now famous battle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQffkC0dAQ

Cannon fodder: you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

 

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By the same creator - what the movies (and most rpgs) get wrong about space combat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pANFGh0tNlk

 

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Sitting duck.

 

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Okay, he's not sitting, but he can't duck nor dodge either.

 

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Inspiration: Why Are There No Fighters in The Expanse? | Expanse Lore

Analysis of the combat doctrine used with The Expanse onto the viability, or lack there of, of starfighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7_MIps_cAM

 

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I agree with every point made in this video and it it equally applicable to Traveller.

 

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Inspiration: 40k Aeronautica Imperialis! Flight Command! GAMEPLAY!

Some refining needed but there is considerable potential here for a fast paced air combat and tactics game set in 40k during the Rynn's World campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVcn20LCko

1. Contrails.

2. Kinda reminds me of Deadlock.

 

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Inspiration: Bombad Bounty - LEGO STAR WARS - Mini Movie

Awesome original mini movies taking place in the LEGO® STAR WARS™ universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d60b2JxVK1E

 

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Inspiration: How To Dock With ISS in SpaceX's Free Dragon Docking Simulator

In advance of the DM-2 Flight carrying crew to the ISS using the first privately designed and built spacecraft SpaceX have released a cut down version of the Dragon simulator which allows you to fly the docking sequence with the ISS. While this is only a cut down version of a full Dragon 2 simulation, it does give you a chance to see how the user interface design is radically different from existing space vehicles.
It also gives you a chance to fly recklessly around a simulated ISS, since they won't let you do that in real life.
https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_SH8LhBoo

 

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Inspiration: Starship Troopers - WTF Happened To This Movie?

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs.

In the latest episode we look back at what happened to director Paul Verhoeven's now-classic sci-fi romp, STARSHIP TROOPERS! Originally released in 1997, the film was skewered by critics and audiences were skittish. Starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris, Jake Busey, Dina Meyer and Clancy Brown, the adaptation of the award-winning novel by Robert A. Heinlein was a tough nut to crack and folks were initially turned off by the hardcore ultraviolence and irreverent satirical edge. However, those same aspects are what has helped make it the cult classic it is today, leaving us with the question of WTF Happened To This Movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVNbC4EFQ1I

 

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Inspiration: Flash Gordon - WTF Happened To This Movie?

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs.

In this episode we look at 1980's FLASH GORDON, based on the old comic strip serials (which eventually inspired George Lucas to make STAR WARS) and starring Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Melody Anderson and Ornella Muti. Directed by Mike Hodges (GET CARTER) and featuring a killer soundtrack from Queen, the film was a tumultuous mess during production with on-set fights, mixed-language crews, a constantly-revised script and star Sam J. Jones eventually leaving the production over a pay dispute and never returning, causing most of his lines to be dubbed. The film wasn't a critical success upon release, but over time has garnered cult status and the Queen soundtrack has stood the test of time. Let's jump back 40 years and find out WTF Happened to FLASH GORDON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZHyDqKjY8

You have to love that gangway balcony feature, that is a double edged sword; it can provide a platform for Marines to use their heavy weapons, and makes boarding easier.

In a constant state of excitement.

 

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Inspiration: The AMUN-RA Advanced Stealth Warship Explained | The Expanse

In covering The Expanse on this channel I want to make sure to do a video on each of the ships. I wasn't originally going to do the Anubis/Amun-Ra Class because there is so little known about it and such little footage available but I decided to give it a shot anyway because I think that it's an interesting ship to look at and it boasts some advanced technology that make it one of the more feared ships in The Expanse's universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYU64jPQUs

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and Hydrogen: The Savior of the Shipping Industry

To learn more about the fight to stop climate change go to https://gatesnot.es/3dkhdhH. Thanks to Bill Gates and Breakthrough Energy for supporting this episode of SciShow.

Huge container ships relying on fossil fuels transport all kinds of goods across the ocean, creating a huge climate change impact. But there's a better way to power this transport using, of all things, water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuLvohkOLNY

One thing we do have access to, is lots of hydrogen; by product oxygen.

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and MAKING IT (Fusion Reactors) WORK

At the core of fusion science is plasma physics.

At extreme temperatures, electrons are separated from nuclei and a gas becomes a plasma—an ionized state of matter similar to a gas. Composed of charged particles (positive nuclei and negative electrons), plasmas are very tenuous environments, nearly one million times less dense than the air we breathe. Fusion plasmas provide the environment in which light elements can fuse and yield energy.

Three conditions must be fulfilled to achieve fusion in a laboratory: very high temperature (to provoke high-energy collisions); sufficient plasma particle density (to increase the likelihood that collisions do occur); and sufficient confinement time (to hold the plasma, which has a propensity to expand, within a defined volume).

In ITER, fusion will be achieved in a tokamak device that uses magnetic fields to contain and control the hot plasma. The plasma particles are heated—that is, sped up—by different types of auxiliary heating methods. The fusion between deuterium and tritium (DT) nuclei produces one helium nucleus, one neutron, and great amounts of energy.

CAPTURING THE ENERGY
More than 99% of the Universe exists as plasma, including interstellar matter, stars and the Sun. Examples of plasmas on Earth are: neon tubes, lightning, the northern lights (aurora borealis), and the glow of plasma televisions. (Click to view larger version...)

The helium nucleus carries an electric charge which will be subject to the magnetic fields of the tokamak and remain confined within the plasma, contributing to its continued heating. However, approximately 80 percent of the energy produced is carried away from the plasma by the neutron which has no electrical charge and is therefore unaffected by magnetic fields. The neutrons will be absorbed by the surrounding walls of the tokamak, where their kinetic energy will be transferred to the walls as heat.

In ITER, this heat will be captured by cooling water circulating in the vessel walls and eventually dispersed through cooling towers. In the type of fusion power plant envisaged for the second half of this century, the heat will be used to produce steam and—by way of turbines and alternators—electricity.

In terms of sheer scale, the energy potential of the fusion reaction is superior to all other energy sources that we know on Earth. Fusing atoms together in a controlled way releases nearly four million times more energy than a chemical reaction such as the burning of coal, oil or gas and four times more than nuclear fission.

https://www.iter.org/sci/MakingitWork

If it wasn't hot before.

Use the hydrogen in the tanks to drive electrical turbines, and poop some of it occasionally in the form of plasma to sink the ambient temperature.

 

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Inspiration: Rocket Engine Test Stand Pressure Regulation

Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world's only manned, crowdfunded space program. In the future, a volunteer astronaut will fly to space on our home-built rocket. We do this on our spare time, all the donations go to paying our workshop rent and buying materials. We are forever thankful to each of our supporters!

In this video we talk about rocket engine test stand design for our bi-liquid BPM100 - the world's largest rocket engine built to be by a non-profit, crowdfunded organization. We also explain how our rocket turbopump substitute - a liquid nitrogen burner heat exchanger works. This will be the pressure regulation system that will fly our crewed Spica rocket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULg5N_FP0U

The type of engineering I can relate to: shoe string.

Also, containerized modular drives.

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and Mesoporous Graphene for Lithium-ion batteries [2020]

Graphene has a theoretical capacity of 744 mAh/g with outstanding electronic mobility at 10,000 cm2/V and extremely high lithium diffusivity at 10-7 – 10-6 cm2/s, it holds great promise as an anode material for high-energy-power lithium-ion batteries.

But the problem has always been producing high quality graphene sheets as we know that any defect will decrease the electric conductivity, electrochemical and structural stability which in turn has a negative effect in power density and Coulombic efficiency.

So far tests conducted with graphene yielded unfavorable results due to how difficult it was to produce high quality sheets, but in this research, titled High-quality mesoporous graphene particles as high-energy and fast-charging anodes for lithium-ion batteries, they were able to improve high quality sheets yield by chemical vapor deposition using a mesoporous Magnesium Oxide as a template and catalyst to start the process and adding an additional step with microwave radiation.

They basically grew nitrogen-doped graphene within the pores of the Magnesium Oxide template.

The idea is straight forward, you have a structure full of holes whereby using chemical vapor deposition, the nitrogen-doped graphene accumulates in these pores reacting with each other and turn forming a graphene sheet, all you need to do now is to submit the structure to an etching process to chemically remove the Magnesium Oxide template.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cktz2Al5TF8

Fast charging, high capacity?

Sounds perfect for jump drive capacitors.

 

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Spaceships: Hulls and Lego Motorized Spacecraft Elevator レゴ SF風エレベータ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svUcFU_NTQ

And if there's a power shortage, you can hand crank it.

 

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Inspiration: STAR CITIZEN NEW GAME TRAILERS 2020 [4K 2160p]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td4PeA9xh2Q