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| (...) Nathan, This looks good, but I have a few comments. You might want to add another power source, solar panels don't work great far from the Sun (Galileo and Magellan used little plutonium pods and thermopiles, IIRC). How about adding a few (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The Selendian Scout
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| (...) Tom, My html skills are pretty basic, optimized for notepad and vi, so I sometimes have trouble getting the pictures lined up right, what looks fine on my home PC doesn't always look good in other browers and PCs. I need to do a little more (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) Jonathan, The craft would indeed contact a lot of particles (about 2.85x10^14 per second per square meter of frontal area at 0.95c) but the energy per particle is very small. So the total energy of those particles seems manageable in (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Hypothetical design question
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| (...) But you're going at .95c, which means you're hitting lots of particles per second. If your ship has a frontal area of 9 sq meters, and 90000 square centimeters, that's 90,000 molecules you're running into for every centimeter forward in space (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The Scoop and a new/old MOC
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| I've got to echo what most of the others said-nice lil' mecha hardsuit you've got there, Chris! Not too beefy, but it certainly gets the point across what you don't want to tick off the suit's operator. Sorry to hear about the job loss. I hope you (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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