Ship Design Philosophy

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Inspiration: The Ship with BOOBS Explained! Battle Beyond the Stars!

Nell is an awesome ship with some very feminine and organic features. This old Corsair star cruiser is an amazing ship in her own right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCU8C2HHi3w

Or for Vargr with testicular fortitude.

 

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Inspiration: The Outer Worlds - Gameplay Trailer | E3 2019

The Outer Worlds is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 25, 2019!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyF8IjfSUI

 

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Spaceships: Accomodations and Is Artificial Gravity Really Achievable? | Answers With Joe

Rotating habitats and artificial gravity are a staple of science fiction movies and TV shows, but the realities of space travel means that someday we'll have to get serious about artificial gravity to keep our astronauts and space travelers healthy. The question is, what's the best way to do that, and is it even possible with today's technology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDJ0vxg1lU


1. Ideal planetary environment for human existence.

2. Micro gravity, circulatory system, and bone atrophy.

3. Coriolis force.

4. Monogee constant acceleration: fifty percent hull discount.

 

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Spaceships: Accomodations

(Photo by Scott Mayerowitz/The Points Guy)

First-class flyers also have access to a self-service drink and snack station— not a typical offering on domestic flights, let alone a regional jet.

It was a sleek little nook at the front of the plane and I can see it being a favorite for passengers.

Despite being a larger plane, there is only one tiny lavatory at the very back.

 

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Starships: Electronics and I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering is famously complicated, but did you know it is complicated enough to make a computer inside of? Witness a world first in this week’s episode!

Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! I know this one is a bit dense, but being the MTG nerd that I am, I wanted to try an experiment. And below is the full set-up of the deck and a link to the paper if you're interested (it's very complicated!): https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828 and if you like Magic and/or EDH, please subscribe to The Command Zone, the only magic podcast I listen to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLsiaNUb42gRAP7ewbJ0ecQ -- kH

1) Go infinite. Play Staff of Domination, draw whole deck.

2) Play Fathom Feeder, Reito Lantern, Lotus petal, demonstrate loop where cast—sac—lantern—fathom feeder to exile rest of Josh’s library.

3) Play Karn, exile card from Josh’s hand. Demonstrate loop with Capsize to exile all cards from Josh’s hand and all permanents he controls.

4) Cast Infest, in response Cleansing Beam (fathom feeder), Coalition Victory, Soul Snuffers, Gix

5) Sac Soul Snuffers to Gix

6) Cast Blazing Archon, Vigor, XN, RR, Dread of Night, Shared Triumph (naming Luhrgoyf), Privileged Position, Mesmeric Orb, Fungus Sliver, Wild Evocation, Prismatic Omen, Choke, Memnarch, Olivia Voldaren, Djinn

7) Cast Cloak of Invisibility on one XN.

8) COPY TIME. With Stolen Identity, copy 79 times with Djinn. Vigor, Archon, XN (7), RR (33), Dread of Night, Shared Triumph. Use Memnarch to make Dread of Night, Shared Triumph (naming rat), Cloak of Invisibility artifacts.
a. Give cloaks to 36 XN and RR.

9) Using Riptide Replicator and Capsize, create 36 creature tokens of varying power and toughness, using 18 different creature types we are going to use as symbols in our program.

10) Using Prismatic Lace, Glamerdye, Artificial Evolution and the Djinn, change text, creature type, and color of pretty much all my permanents.
a. All XN + RR going to be red, black, green, and white, and are going to make different creature tokens of a different color, according to our program.
b. All tape tokens to the left of the 2/2 orc are going to be green, all to the left will be white.
c. Our Fungus is going to be white and give counter to “incarnations” instead of slivers
d. Dread of night is going to look for “black” creatures instead of white.
e. Olivia Voldaren to make Assembly Workers instead of Vampires

11) Cast Donate 41 times. Give Josh all the hacked RR and XN, the Wild Evocation, a copy of the Vigor and the Archon.

12) Cast Illusory Gains on your White 3/3 Faerie.

13) Hacked Olivia Voldaren to hack all creatures in play as type Assembly Worker

14) Cast Recycle

15) Reito Lantern all graveyard specific order, Staff of Domination draw Donate, Donate + Djinn to Recycle and Privileged Position, draw 2
a.ON THE STACK, cast Reality Ripple on 18 of the XN and RR according to our program, gives the computer 2 different phases as your turn comes around

16) Reito Infest, Cleansing Beam, Coalition Victory, Soul Snuffers to library, draw rest of library + Infest

17) Karn / Capsize exile my hand plus all set-up permanents

18) Cast Karn, exile card from my hand, in response, Capsize Karn

19) Cast Wheel of Sun and Moon, cast Steely Resolve (naming Assembly Worker)

20) PASS

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


1. Electro magnetic pulse proof.

2. Technological level three computer, possibly two.

3. Final sequence card:

 

[Anonymous]

1. Electro magnetic pulse proof.

2. Technological level three computer, possibly two.

3. Final sequence card:

To be fair, you probably wouldn't survive the EMP generation event and you're a vital component of this computer.

By the way, this computer using magic cards is a digital computer, meaning that it has discrete or distinct states, vs a continually-variable system like a slide rule or sundial, which is an analogue computer.

I know of no universal law of computing that defines the limits of an analogue system - unlike digital systems which have their limits defined by Church & Turing's work. While it's true that all turing machines can in theory emulate each other (assuming unlimited memory), it would take an awful lot of magic cards and time to compete with a laptop. But fundamentally it is true; the magic cards and the laptop both have the same theoretical limit on their ability to compute. (Edit: or more importantly, if there is something one cannot do due to Turing’s limits, then the other cannot do it either)

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and Why Plane Tires Don't Explode On Landing

Plane tires need to support thousands of pounds of weight at high speeds, so why don't they pop? We talked to Goodyear, one of the leading manufacturers of plane tires, who told us why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CyXMNHYl70


Do our spaceships use tyres?

If you're thinking skids for vertical take off, or telescoping legs, tyres will allow taxiing of the spacecraft without turning on the reactor.

 

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Spaceships: Accomodations and Dreamliner oxygen may not work by NICK FARRELL

In the unlikely advent of a cabin depression, you people sitting there, there and there, might choke to death

A Boeing whistleblower claims that the good people at Boeing may have made another short-cut on one of their designs of the 787 Dreamliner that leaves their passengers without oxygen if there is a cabin depressurisation.

John Barnett claimed that a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work when needed. Faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on the production line at one Boeing factory.

Boeing denies his accusations and says all its aircraft are built to the highest levels of safety and quality.

However, this is the same firm which signed off on the safety of another one of its planes, the 737 Max only to see them drop out of the sky twice.

Barnett, a former quality control engineer, worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement on health grounds in March 2017. From 2010 he was employed as a quality manager at Boeing's factory in North Charleston, South Carolina.

This plant is one of two that are involved in building the 787 Dreamliner which has proved a hit with airlines, and a useful source of profits for the company. So far though none of them have been forced to deploy their oxygen masks.

Barnett said the rush to get new aircraft off the production line meant that the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised. The company denies this and insists that "safety, quality and integrity are at the core of Boeing's values".

He told the BBC that in 2016, he uncovered problems with emergency oxygen systems. Without such systems, the occupants of a plane would rapidly be incapacitated. At 35,000ft, (10,600m) they would be unconscious in less than a minute. At 40,000ft, it could happen within 20 seconds. Brain damage and death would follow.

Barnett says that when he was decommissioning systems which had suffered minor cosmetic damage, he found that some of the oxygen bottles were not discharging when they were meant to. He subsequently arranged for a controlled test to be carried out by Boeing's own research and development unit.

This test, which used oxygen systems that were "straight out of stock" and undamaged, was designed to mimic the way in which they would be deployed aboard an aircraft, using exactly the same electric current as a trigger. He says 300 systems were tested - and 75 of them did not deploy properly, a failure rate of 25 percent.

However, his attempts to have the matter looked at further were stonewalled by Boeing managers. In 2017, he complained to the US regulator, the FAA, that no action had been taken to address the problem. The FAA said it could not substantiate that claim because Boeing had told them it was working on the issue. Nice that a regulator took Boeing's word for it.

Boeing concedes that in 2017 it "identified some oxygen bottles received from the supplier that were not deploying properly. We removed those bottles from production so that no defective bottles were placed on airplanes, and we addressed the matter with our supplier".

https://www.fudzilla.com/news/automotive/49738-dreamliner-oxygen-may-not-work


1. Twenty five percent possible failure rate, in an emergency.

2. Paranoid passengers might want to carry onboard a supply of their own.

3. Andrea Sibaldi • 3 hours ago
"Faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on the production line at one Boeing factory.".... what did you expect? Surely one cannot just throw away such expensive components!

 

[Anonymous]

1979: if it aint Boeing i aint going

2019: ?

 

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Spaceships: Hulls and The Perfect Sci-Fi Space Fighter

Spacedock discusses Babylon 5's fantastic Starfury Aurora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6NTx92J18


1. TIE Fighter Ecks Wing hybrid.

2. Vertical Take Off and Landing, if using our manoeuvre drives.

3. Struts give structural strength, and minimize volume.

4. I think those pimples on the side of the engines are maneuvering jets.

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and What are Hypergolic Rocket Fuels? (Other than Explosive, Corrosive, Toxic, Carcinogenic and Orange)

Hypergolic fuels are a core technology in rocket science, propellents that will spontaneously combust when mixed together. This makes them attractive for rocket designers, who generally aren't the people who have to get in a the protective gear to load the stuff.
So, what are they made of, and why do designers pick one option over another?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLmqQ5ceS8


So what exactly are our reactionary rockets using as fuel?

 

[Anonymous]

Spaceships: Engineering and What are Hypergolic Rocket Fuels? (Other than Explosive, Corrosive, Toxic, Carcinogenic and Orange)

Hypergolic fuels are a core technology in rocket science, propellents that will spontaneously combust when mixed together. This makes them attractive for rocket designers, who generally aren't the people who have to get in a the protective gear to load the stuff.
So, what are they made of, and why do designers pick one option over another?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLmqQ5ceS8


So what exactly are our reactionary rockets using as fuel?

Hypergolic? They are just making word up now.

So do we get this before we get binary propellant guns, or after?

 

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Starships: USS Reliant: When the Little Ship is Larger

The USS Reliant is 70 meters shorter than the Enterprise, but is it actually a larger ship overall? We explore that question in this video!

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

1. Hull thickness - eighteen inch hull, average.

2. I always preferred the Miranda class configuration.

 

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Spaceships: Spaceship Design

From the most basic rockets to future ships designed for interstellar or even intergalactic flight, spaceship design is all about mission purpose, available technology, and keeping your crew safe and comfortable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ddnrBT6hE


1. Mass versus cost.

2. Volume versus economies of scale.

3. Self sealing tanks versus unarmoured tanks.

4. Pod trailing.

5. Ice comet freighters.

6. Cat navigators?

7. Augmented and/or altered human crew.

8. OSHA versus robust health insurance.

9. Interstellar drag.

10. Radiation damage from radioactive isotopes in the human body during long duration frozen sleep.

11. Solar sail decelerator.

 

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Spaceships: Armament and Carronades

So how many of these can I stuff into a turret?

 

[Anonymous]

Spaceships: Armament and Carronades

So how many of these can I stuff into a turret?

Missing link? (No, not that kind. Go away, Darwin).

 

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Inspiration: The Expanse Season 4 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Discover what lies beyond the Ring Gate as the Rocinante lands on Ilus to find tensions at a full boil. Full season coming December 13, 2019 on Amazon Prime Video.

About The Expanse Seasons 4:
Season 4 of The Expanse, its first as a global Amazon Original, begins a new chapter for the series with the crew of the Rocinante on a mission from the U.N. to explore new worlds beyond the Ring Gate. Humanity has been given access to thousands of Earth-like planets which has created a land rush and furthered tensions between the opposing nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt. Ilus is the first of these planets, one rich with natural resources but also marked by the ruins of a long dead alien civilization. While Earthers, Martians and Belters maneuver to colonize Ilus and its natural resources, these early explorers don’t understand this new world and are unaware of the larger dangers that await them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdzpVt5rbk

 

[Sigtrygg]

There is a rather good article on atomic rockets about how the Epstein drive could actually be scientifically plausible.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#id--Fusion--(_Epstein_Drive_)

scroll down to matter beam's analysis or alternatively use this link for the original article

https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-drive.html