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Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:25:35 GMT
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Mark Sandlin wrote:
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> In lugnet.build, Jeff Elliott writes:
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> > Are you kidding? Those engines are junk! Any sane space-engineer
> > knows that it's lunatic to put the floozium injector ports so close
> > to the trilithium uptake valve! The vibrations at peak output could
> > cause the elliptical cam to gradually slide up the beam shaft and
> > catch on the flange rebate dislodging the gripley, with disastrous
> > results! :O
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> > All kidding aside: Nice work! Now are you going to let us in on the
> > secrets of construction? :)
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> > Jeff Elliott
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> No! No! No!
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> It's all compensated for by the proximity of the doohickey coil.
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> ~Mark
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> XFUT: off-topic.fun
Ha ha! Your superior weapons are no match for my puny intellect: I
override us back to lugnet.space!
But seriously - the whole thing with flange rebates and the like - I
*do* think in those terms when I'm designing engines, weapons, etc.
There's an art to putting a sufficient number of doohickeys on a
tech item to make it look realistic. F'r'instance, Mladen's engine
has that nice ring of handles around the outer rim which are suggestive
of thrust vectors / coolant tubes / whatever. The big tanks look like
fuel chambers. Has anyone got some kind of library of neat thingy
ideas for designing technical components? It might be useful to seed
ideas from. A good widget can form the heart of a wicked spacecraft...
Jeff Elliott
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 | | Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
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| LOL, thanks guys! Actually the bars forming the ring are actually magnetic field project to change the direction of the thrust, much like what NASA is proposing to do. The yellow w/ red stripes tanks are, guess what, ACTUALLY fuel tanks ;-). And the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
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| Jeff Elliott wrote in message <396A151F.B78216AD@t...es.com>... (...) I tend to try and keep it pretty simple. Take an antimatter engine/storage-cell - I just postulate a pseudo-science where you can contain an anti-matter plasma (of any mixture of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
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