You all have to be aware that this game has the scale of things all wrong.
The planets are WAY too small, the sun too.
The systems are rather small, and so are our movement speeds.
Its gotta be that way, or would you want to take 1 RL week from Manhatan to Pittsburg?
In any event, in real life a Dreadnought cruising at 20km/s would have so much kinetic energy It would create at the very least a crater with a radius twice its lengh. Not that its as Dense as an Asteroid the same size.
It doubt it would desintegrate in the atmosphere, as today even the ceramic plates on the Shuttle can handle reentry. In Freelancer the alloys are extremely resistant to temperature, impact and tearing making them, IMO, more than capable of entering the atmosphere with a 90? angle. Of course they would crash into a city at that angle....
This game has many real life flaws, but their there to make it more enjoyable and playable. Like, how does your Fighter turn that fast? In space you'd need thrusters all over your ship so you could turn that fast. Like it was in constant Engine kill mode, you cant turn like a plane (*cough* Raven *cough*). Though there are no visible thrusters arround your craft.
(Not to mention the amazing gunfire it must resist, Laser, plasma, tachyon(?), etc...)
whats to say theres not visable or the engines arnt thrust vectored but were off topic its highly unlikely a shop that size would be used as a weapon on a planet due to the nature of the ship itself
' Wrote:Drop a penny from the top of the empire state building, you'll kill a man. Drop a bowling ball, you'll leave a small crater in the sidewalk.
Wrong. You can't really throw any of those off the viewing deck. There is a slight extension to the building about 8 floors down, so it all ends up there. lucky pedestrians.
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It will reach terminal velocity, and it won't speed up any faster, because it's reached as fast as the earth's gravity, air resistance, and whatnot will allow it to move downward. In the end, it's the weight of the object that will kill, not the speed, as everything falls at essentially the same rate, given time to reach terminal.
' Wrote:everything falls at essentially the same rate, given time to reach terminal.
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Terminal velocity heavily depends on the shape of the object. A bowling ball will fall faster than a penny because a sphere has less drag than a short cylinder that is fluttering. Bowling ball easily could kill, penny wouldn't. Of course, neither takes much time to reach terminal, so dropping them both off a 10 story building would have pretty much the same effect.
Make a teardrop shaped asteroid (the exact dimensions depend on the density of the atmosphere on the planet), point it in the right direction and entry angle, and it will do considerably more damage than a sphere or random other rock-shape at the same entry conditions.
... I have no idea what this topic is about I've only read this current page. whee.
Some say that he's a CIA experiment that went wrong, and that he only eats cheese. All we know is that he's not The Stig - he's The Stig's American cousin.
The russians are building a kilometer-long space abttleship and will launch it in 2012 with the americans subsequently blowing it up with their own battleship and causing 2 kilometers worth of battleship parts to crash into the planet and destroy it?