To the engineering types here

[Tenacity]

Hm... I'm going to post a weapon suggestion in the dev forum later for a mass driver cannon for junkers =P

It was an old weapon type from wing commander 3/4 - didnt fire too fast, but it basically accelerated a small clump of solid mass (for junkers, a big chunk of scrap metal) and fired it towards the target like a cannonball.

I'm thinkin it would be a good particle weapon, and barragers suck right now. Then again, it could be made a torpedo-slot weapon... hm...

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[Monk]

An addendum to my last post regarding tachyons. I think if a field could be created where tachyons, the quantum field type, occur very frequently then you would have the most awesome invincible shield. In empty space the tachyons would simple decay into typical background radiation but, when a weapon beam comes in range of the field the tachyons would take the form of the beam since that beam would then be the local minimum instead of empty space. This might, in effect, repel the incoming beam b/c the beam would essential be hitting something made of the same stuff. Just dreaming here though...no science to back that up:P

[Tenacity]

Oh btw, faster than light speed travel is possible, just not for any sort of matter =P

I think there's a few types of radiation that travel faster than lightspeed, but im not a rocket scientist... I'm a welder...

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[Monk]

True...in a sense...anything can travel faster than light. In quantum mechanics a particle can exist in two places at once. This suggests that information is being transferred between the the particle and its copy b/c in order to stay the same information needs to be transferred regarding momentum, spin etc etc...This information would have to transmitted via some particle that not only travels faster than light but also trancends time since the time between copies must be zero. Gets a little iffy when calculating this tho since it violates causality and such a particle could never be normalized.

EDIT: and with that I hope i have had enough of a mind dump to overcome insomnia...:P

[n00bl3t]

Oh btw, faster than light speed travel is possible, just not for any sort of matter =P

*Anger.*

In FL, tradelanes are meant to be superluminal, which means we can travel faster than c.

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It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[El Nino]

Well this looks perticulary great, Being the resident Physicist I think H-fuel is used mainly for fusion reactors. As H-fuel is most easily used for fusion. I hope freelancer ships use it, as it is the second most effective way of turning mass in to energy... MOX can be used in classical nuclear reactors, much like enriched Uranium. It's highly Toxic, And quite inefficient compared to fusion.

A fusion reactor would probably be much diffrent from your model, look it up at wiki... An H-fuel space engine is something we can make today,... the downside is it hardly makes any kind of power, compared to fusion, So what you made there is a Water generator... Sirius engines are probably all fusion or nuclear based. Why would someone use plutonium or uranium reactors when you have fusion reactors is beyond me. I guess the original developers didn't quite know to much about physics.

All the lighter ellements, such as H-fuel, Deuterium, are all used for fusion reactors, while MOX and plutonium for nuclear. It's funny how Sirius works with kusari having all the H-fuel, when Hydrogen is the most common element in space. Understandably it's easier to extract it from large gas clouds, but even so, with fusion reactors operational you could extract it from any watery planet...

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[Tenacity]

So wait, do fusion reactions create electricity in addition to the water from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms?

Because electricity can be used for propulsion via an Ion engine, which we have prototypes of built already. An Ion engine uses an electrically charged grid at the back of a chamber and releases a gas into the chamber with an opposite charge (I'm not sure what kind of gas though) - that causes ions within the gas to be pulled from the chamber by the charged grid and out the back, which generates a small amount of propulsion.

Ion engines havent been tested yet as far as I know (in space at least), and they dont produce a very large amount of thrust - but they are extremely fuel efficient and can accelerate a ship to fairly high speeds over a long period of time, after which the ship just drifts with the engine off due to minimal drag in space.

Ion engines look cool too, the seperation of ions by the charged grid, combined with the gas cloud, creates a glow similar to what the freelancer engine effects look like (though not as bright or big).

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[Monk]

So wait, do fusion reactions create electricity in addition to the water from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms?

Typical stellar fusion reactions in stars the size of our sun and smaller follow the proton-proton chain for much of their lifecycle.

H + H → D + e+ + ν(e) + 0.42 MeV

H is hydrogen(one proton), D is deuterium (a proton and a neutron), e+ is a positron and v(e) is a neutrino (the product of a proton turning into a neutron.

e− + e+ → 2 γ + 1.02 MeV

The positron finds an electron and they annihilate to produce two gamma rays and energy.

D + H → He(3) + γ + 5.49 MeV

Next the D from the first reaction will fuse with H to produce He(3) (two protons one neutron) a gamma and more energy. From this point forward several branches could be followed depending on the temperature. But all the branches essentially lead to producing He(4) (two protons and two neutrons).

The CNO cycle (Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen) dominates stars heavier than our sun and converts H into C, N and O. This is the process that produces these essential elements for the Universe.

So...no water in a Nuclear Reaction b/c, as the name suggests, it is a reaction involving the nucleus. The production of water from H and O is a result of a chemical reaction.

EDIT: Fusion reactions can produce electricity by using the heat produced to run a steam turbine.

[Rudo]

Ok, how's this look:




Assuming it's good enough, I can go ahead and write a short technical excerpt on how the system works and how to repair/jump start each of the components.

Step 1: Open bag of seeds
Step 2: Feed hamster

If problem persists, open casing. Remove dead hamster. Replace with live hamster. Feed hamster and close case.

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