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Re: Gravity Shields, Frap Rays, etc.
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lugnet.space
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Date:
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Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:52:25 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Adrian Drake wrote:
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And the Tribunal does have defensive weaponry. Since she has artifical
gravity capabilities, there are mechanisms to convert said artificial gravity
into defensive weapons. Besides the standard tractor beams, she is capable
of creating a gravitic shield that would normally be used to protect the
front of the ship from micrometeorite strikes during flight. Boosting power
to the gravitic shield would provide her with the capability to block larger
incoming weapons. Whether it works on Frap rays and Freem cannons remains to
be seen.
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There, is that scientific enough for you? :)
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Yes! Here is some more science for y’all - this is good warm up to the
approaching school year! Pardon the windedness, but you know how teachers can
be!
The manipulation of gravity (and antigravity) would be a requirement for all
ships that wish to go faster than light, from the large to the small. In fact,
physicists like Kip Thorne and others see long distance space travel being
possible only if making antigravity is possible, a side topic theoretically
debated right now within astronomy, astrophysics, and perhaps string theory
advocates with regards to dark matter and dark energy. The repulsors on Star
Wars ships, hyper and warp drives on most sci-fi ships, hover cars, etc. would
all need to bend space at will to work. So if a ship can bend gravity for
extreme manuvers like space travel and floating, it could certainly do it for a
small task like deflecting projectiles launched at it. In fact, lasers and
energy weapons (Frap rays and Freem?) would also be deflected, because all
matter and energy must travel through space, and must follow the geometry of
space as it moves. Curve space away from a ship, and weapons fire curves away
from it too.
Class is over. There will be a quiz on Friday... ;-)
Bill Pfund
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) When building a vessel that is this shape (long and skinny with a rounded front) it's quite difficult to avoid comparisons to the Discovery from 2001, so I just accept them. It wasn't my intent to copy that design, it just sort of worked out (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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