That propulsion method is not going to work on airless planets/moons
And what if you do it really, Really, REALLY fast?
And what if you do it really, Really, REALLY fast?
Yes but only if you bring your own terraform device and some patience.
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Ian Phillips
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Even when waving the hands that fast, I'm pretty sure that its about as effective a way to fly as the method shown in your avatar
Hmm, this 'Peek of the Week' seems to have been 'Peek of the Month'.
How about a new one FD?.... or am I completely missing something here.
How about a new one FD?.... or am I completely missing something here.
If you look closely the rings have some kind of blue energy field stuff flowing inside them. So they are not fans. And I think I read somewhere that they only operate close to the ground which sugest they depend on some planetary factor that is not air. Which only leaves gravity. So with the information provided I believe these are complicated propulsion systems that transform gravity into force and reverse the flow, or something like that.
Sorry for the double post but I have to say that I was wrong. If it used gravity to propel itself then whats to stop it from fling to the moon on earths gravity or the oposite. Asuming it must stay close to the surface, I conclude that it can only be magnetically propeling itself against the surface or doing something simular wich we have yet to understand with modern science. This explains everything... until Frontier says otherwise.
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I hope this is temporary
Now we have the same interface on all ships and it would be quite wrong that interface installed in ground vehicles. The game now is so much sameness. I think that the various manufacturing companies would use their unique holographic interfaces, especially for ships and vehicles for different purposes.
I hope that the ground vehicles will be a different interface.
![[VR] Frank_G](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/59/59394.jpg?1553527111){kind=avatar}
The instrumentation works perfectly for a ground vehicle. Why do something different, when it works? There is not really a better way for a scanner to tell position, distance and elevation difference in a single picture. The picture of the rover tells you, where you are hit and the other scanner shows the target... it is by all means a good interface you are already used to. It is not a placeholder for sure. It might see some variation (as it already did) but in general that is what we get, i think. And i like it.
For a variety of game. At least for a picture of our eyes sometimes change. Developers can make the same easy to use interface, but slightly different, though using different colors and icons.
Hmm...what's it propelled by? Those don't look like thrusters.
Looks like thrusters to me...
...non-standard thrusters, sure, but still thrusters.
Space magic, and the tears of the pilots who will inevitably crash into planets like how miners crash into asteroids.
I doubt very much that we'll have VTOL craft based on Dyson's bladeless air coolers. Dyson's sales patter sounded a little suspect, especially when he mentioned "viscous shearing" as if normal fans didn't drag air along with it as well. And that remark about the "slap in the face" felt a little like a... well... slap in the face. I also get the feeling that pressure pulses on your skin my be more efficient for evaporating sweat, which is how fans cool you down.
Because I was sure I could hear a bladed fan noise I suspected there was a bladed fan in the base. So I Googled the phrase "dyson's bladless fan has got blades" and got back...
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/14/it-has-blades-dysons-little-white-lie/
I'm not saying that the fan design is bad. Hiding blades from inquisitive little fingers is a great idea. I'm just saying that his design is more to minimise the loss you'd get from hiding the fan in the base, and less to do with "amplifying" the power of the fan.
We're not going to get Dyson Fan aircraft.
Arguing over imaginary/fictional objects is funny...
Anyway - looks like some kind of ion drive to me
Rgds o7
Anyway - looks like some kind of ion drive to me
Rgds o7
The "FA Off" on the hud could be not a mistake: I can imagine some kind of vertical thrusters on the SRV to assist it to stick as much as possible to the ground in case of (very) low G. Switch to FA Off, and the SRV could then be able to jump or bounce more easily, but consequently would be harder to control.