• Warp speed will warp you into oblivion
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[QUOTE=Neo Kabuto;38514794]I doubt it's what he meant, but you could arguably use time dilation in reverse if you were able to slow down an computer/put it in the right gravitational field.[/QUOTE] Putting a computer under time dilation in order to "cheat the system" wouldn't really work, on account of needing to either leave the solar system and find a gravity well huge enough for it to work properly; or going at absurdly close to lightspeed. If either of those were possible, we wouldn't need warp drives.
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;38513485]b) Use computers experiencing time dilation to calculate at faster speeds than normally achievable, relative to us, to figure out how to achieve this after all[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;38513897]:|[/QUOTE]I would highly recommend not angering Johnny, dangling false physics in front of him is like bloody meat to a shark.
We will never get out of the soalr usystem guys, stop dreaming. The closest to insterstellar travel would be sleeper ships or motherships.
[QUOTE=Alcoholocaust;38515054]We will never get out of the soalr usystem guys, stop dreaming. The closest to insterstellar travel would be sleeper ships or motherships.[/QUOTE] Trying to come up with a good reason to leave our planet in the first place is hard enough. Right now there really aren't any good incentives beyond sheer desire to explore. No resources we can't get cheaper on Earth, no living space more habitable or feasible than even the Antarctic, no research lucrative enough to justify permanent manned presence offworld. Finding a reason to get off this rock is hard enough, let alone finding a reason to go to another system.
[QUOTE=Alcoholocaust;38515054]We will never get out of the soalr usystem guys, stop dreaming. The closest to insterstellar travel would be sleeper ships or motherships.[/QUOTE] What about Voyager 1 and 2 then?
It might be not too relevant, but what about near-lightspeed propulsion, like the LDS Drive from Independence War, that uses the power of a frenzy of tiny explosions behind the ship to accelerate it to near the speed of light?
[QUOTE=itak365;38515361]It might be not too relevant, but what about near-lightspeed propulsion, like the LDS Drive from Independence War, that uses the power of a frenzy of tiny explosions behind the ship to accelerate it to near the speed of light?[/QUOTE]Like nuclear propulsion?
Oh shoot you guys I'm sorry, I didn't mean to fuck up the thread. I wasn't expecting anyone to care, I just wanted to slip in a Futurama joke like every other guy My bad. Johnny I actually really dig your science knowledge in these threads :/
[QUOTE=itak365;38515361]It might be not too relevant, but what about near-lightspeed propulsion, like the LDS Drive from Independence War, that uses the power of a frenzy of tiny explosions behind the ship to accelerate it to near the speed of light?[/QUOTE] What you describe is similar to the Orion nuclear propulsion drive, and it has the same limitations as any other form of propulsion, but that isn't exactly what LDS is supposed to be. Independence War was intended to not violate relativity, but to kind of sidestep it. LDS is supposed to work not via actual propulsion, but by a succession of minute teleportations that in aggregate move the ship very quickly without actually giving it any momentum. Capsule drive is similar in that it's a direct teleport from one Lagrange point to another across large distances, rather than actual travel in a conventional sense. Neither really has any basis in reality, but I always like when sci-fi authors think through this stuff and come up with technologies that are internally consistent and conceptually interesting, as opposed to the typical warp drive that just makes you go fast and that's it.
[QUOTE=itak365;38515361]It might be not too relevant, but what about near-lightspeed propulsion, like the LDS Drive from Independence War, that uses the power of a frenzy of tiny explosions behind the ship to accelerate it to near the speed of light?[/QUOTE] Something similar to that could be really used with antimatter. If we manage to store antimatter and then we can shoot it to a metal plate so it annihilates, releases a shitton of energy and propels the ship. Apparently a coin worth of AM can propel us to mars.
like the slip space bomb from reach
[QUOTE=Maucer;38518499]Something similar to that could be really used with antimatter. If we manage to store antimatter and then we can shoot it to a metal plate so it annihilates, releases a shitton of energy and propels the ship. Apparently a coin worth of AM can propel us to mars.[/QUOTE] Antimatter isn't really useful for propulsion for a bunch of reasons. Antimatter is useful for power generation, since it's extraordinarily efficient, and then that power can be used for a less-efficient drive system. The main problem with antimatter is that it's pretty much impossible to contain the reaction in any useful size, which limits it to very low-yields and consequently low thrust. It's an order of magnitude simpler to contain a fusion or fission reaction and use that for propulsion, and that won't annihilate you in an instantaneous flash if your fuel containment fails.
[QUOTE=J!NX;38491998]I can understand that going really fast unless you have really good shields = you hit a pebble you're fucked now if you hit a asteroid both you and everything near it will too[/QUOTE]"We'd bounce too close to a star or supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it."
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