The only way this would work realistically is to make an actual HUGE planet. Layer gas clouds around it, increasing in denisty as you enter the "atmosphere" and radiation increasing with it. You could start outside with dense rocks that gradually disipate as you go deeper. You might even have pockets of volatile gas strewn thoughout as well. Would have to be a big planet model. In real life, liquid isn't something you find in a vacuum as a rule.
Basically it wouldsimulate diving into a gas giant.
Those of you saying "nuke in space lol" don't understand that in space, a nuclear explosion does not act the same way as it does in atmosphere. A nuke in atmosphere does most of its damage from the shock of the blast wave, overpressure, and eventually radiation and fallout. In space, the only thing that would do damage from a nuke going off is the burst of gamma rays.
At the center of a nuclear blast, where the overpressure is about 13 psi, only the strongest structures: reinforced concrete and bunkers and whatnot, still have some semblance of their original shape. Everything else is literally flattened by the overpressure. That's a mere 13 psi over normal atmosphere at sea level, which is about 14.7 psi. Every 33 feet deep in water you go (on Earth) you add another atmosphere of pressure. Steel hulled submarines can go to about 540psi. No spaceship that we have or likely ever will build can withstand that. That's an absurd requirement for a spaceship.
Anyways, as was said earlier, in a "liquid" system, unless some force was acting on it, it'd form into droplets and there would be no pressure. Still, have you thought about what this system would be like at the edges of the liquid-y part? Because liquids will boil into vapor in space, not to mention dissipate because there's nothing holding them together except maybe gravity.
So with that all being said, I'm against this idea. This is a spaceship computer game, not a submarine computer game.
Mkay. My high school understanding of physics tells me that this is physically impossible. (And Hawkwings here seems to have actually done MORE reading on the subject of 'nuke in space lol' than I have, albeit I could easily make a case for a nuke doing physical damage in an exoatmospheric situation)
That said, so is almost everything that makes Freelancer Freelancer. Go for it. This would be epic beyond measure.
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Quote:Oil is an organic material, something has to die for it to be created. Wouldnt work.
You know...
There are mine-able fields of alien organisms.
... Stuff to die.
Exile Wrote:I don't think we should look at the scientific point too much. I mean, Freelancer has sound in space. That's weird enough as it is. Also, the French are powerful and figthing. Another thing that, according to science, is impossible.
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Liquids offer too much resistance. It would be impossible for a ship to move through it. Nitrogen is a very viscous, and cold, substance. Liquid nitrogen would literally freeze your ship and cause your hull to shatter. Shields probably wouldn't offer respite.
"THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THESCIENCEIS LEAKING OUT!"
' Wrote:Liquids offer too much resistance. It would be impossible for a ship to move through it. Nitrogen is a very viscous, and cold, substance. Liquid nitrogen would literally freeze your ship and cause your hull to shatter. Shields probably wouldn't offer respite.
You're talking about resistance in a natural state in which there isn't anything to create it. Free standing liquid in an open vacum would have little to know resistance save what is created by localized gravitational draws.
Nitrogen freezing the hull? I don't think so, space gets cold, really cold. These hulls are also engineered to survive natural events, anomalies, and attacks of epic proportions. We're talking nuclear and matter/anti-matter weapons.
Why wouldn't the shields offer respite? They prevent mass from making contact with the hull, asteroids, micro-particles, and even little squishy things in the Omicrons systems. Why would a liquid be so much stronger?
Actually, flying through liquid nitrogen would freeze your ship because even though space is cold, it's a very good insulator. The only way ships can dump waste heat in space is through radiation, which is the least effective form of heat transfer. In contact with liquid nitrogen, conduction and convection are possible, meaning that the ship's heat is dumped far faster than it was designed to do. This messes up the environmental systems of the ship, not to mention causes the metal hull to shrink and seriously damage itself. So within a very short time, you're in a dead ship freezing to death because the heatsinks on your ship have suddenly gotten much much better at their job, too good in fact, and kill both you and your ship.
Or maybe your cockpit windows shatter due to the clear material shrinking (or just due to the incredible temperature gradient) and you drown.
' Wrote:The only way this would work realistically is to make an actual HUGE planet. Layer gas clouds around it, increasing in denisty as you enter the "atmosphere" and radiation increasing with it. You could start outside with dense rocks that gradually disipate as you go deeper. You might even have pockets of volatile gas strewn thoughout as well. Would have to be a big planet model. In real life, liquid isn't something you find in a vacuum as a rule.
Basically it wouldsimulate diving into a gas giant.
Ironically this was a plan for an H fuel mining planet.