They are all probably just jealous because they will be approaching middle age and therefore gravity will have a greater affect on them due to their increased mass.
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G Force - In space??
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They are all probably just jealous because they will be approaching middle age and therefore gravity will have a greater affect on them due to their increased mass.
It is the weakest in absolute terms.
The tiny magnetic field of a fridge magnet is enough to overcome the gravitational attraction caused by the entire mass of the Earth. Big win for the little guy.
If we were on Jupiter then our fridge magnets would need to be quite a lot stronger to stop them falling off.
The quandary comes when we get very large masses in very small spaces.
Then gravity can become so strong that nothing at all can survive its pull.
It will pull electrons orbiting around an atom into the nucleus and cancel out the positive charge of the nucleus with the negative electrons resulting in lots of neutrons and a colossal release of energy. Neutron stars.
Something the size of a city with the mass of a big star.
One word - inertia.
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>> No way a human could survive the forces involved in a high speed space dogfight.
That's why you get the warnings. Your *absolute* speed is irrelevant, only your speed relative to your ship, and that is modelled just fine. Earth moves through space at something like 90k mph, and yet we can all walk around just fine, because our resting intrinsic velocity matches that
That's why you get the warnings. Your *absolute* speed is irrelevant, only your speed relative to your ship, and that is modelled just fine. Earth moves through space at something like 90k mph, and yet we can all walk around just fine, because our resting intrinsic velocity matches that
Just because you don't understand the physics behind it, does not mean it is stupid, it is quite realistic.
Some further reading would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum
The effect that would cause that g-loc in space is the same as on earth, because, while you do sit in the ship, you are no the ship, but an independent body and forces will act upon your body after they acted on the ship. This effect can be seen even in normal life. If you sit in a car you are pressed in your seat when accelerating the car or 'pushed' forward when deceleration. Same, when entering a turn, your body will first want to go to the outside of the turn and only once the forces acted upon your body will follow the turn. For this effect you don't need an atmosphere or a huge mass, just two bodies that are temporarily in disagreement about where they want to go (the ship wants to turn, the body wants to go straight) until the forces have 'caught up' to them.
Also, AI spaceships? Well, then lets get rid of all of humanity, who needs those squishy, polluting, lazy sacks of mostly water anyway. AI's can do everything better.
It would take the rest of your life, your childrens lives, your childrens childrens lives..
to accelerate to the speeds required in the game (without squashing you to a pulp)
If forces are removed from the game regarding acceleration, they should also be removed for cornering.
Its a GAME after all.
Cornering speed should be ONLY limited by your ships maneuverability.
<EDIT> There are so many unrealistic things about this game yet people are quoting Newtonian physics?
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If forces are removed for unrealistic speeds and acceleration they should also be removed for cornering - it's stupid.
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>> It would take the rest of your life, your childrens lives, your childrens childrens lives..
>> to accelerate to the speeds required in the game (without squashing you to a pulp)
If FSD accelerated you, that would be true. However, it does not. You change your "frame of reference" relative to the universe (hence the name, Frame Shift Drive). You exist in a portion of flat spacetime, and cause spacetime to pile up behind you, and contract in front of you. I know it sounds like "Game ", but it is real, according to Hoyle physics. NASA are developing a drive that does exactly this, right now
>> to accelerate to the speeds required in the game (without squashing you to a pulp)
If FSD accelerated you, that would be true. However, it does not. You change your "frame of reference" relative to the universe (hence the name, Frame Shift Drive). You exist in a portion of flat spacetime, and cause spacetime to pile up behind you, and contract in front of you. I know it sounds like "Game ", but it is real, according to Hoyle physics. NASA are developing a drive that does exactly this, right now
You don't get the g warnings in supercruise. Only in standard flight. The maximum speed at the moment is 500 metres per second which is easily attainable with current technology.
If you were in a fighter jet travelling at 500m/s and you pulled back on the stick you would black out due to g forces. Being in a gravity well or not has no bearing on it.
Wow. This is escalating quickly. Or should that be accelerating?
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No it wouldn't. The speeds in normal flight are pretty unspectacular. Two hundred and fifty m/s equals 900 km/h or 560 mph. That's the cruising speed of a passenger jet.
Is there gravity in space?
Here's a video by SciShow on YouTube that explains the subject of gravity and space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzquEOMLGU
And if that doesn't settle it here are 3 videos by the European Space Agency, filmed partly aboard the International Space Station, that explain Newton's laws of motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Wz5P0JdeU&list=PLFR5d_u3ojohGNxYIVHBCxQ1e7_rRcUqQ
Here's a video by SciShow on YouTube that explains the subject of gravity and space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzquEOMLGU
And if that doesn't settle it here are 3 videos by the European Space Agency, filmed partly aboard the International Space Station, that explain Newton's laws of motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Wz5P0JdeU&list=PLFR5d_u3ojohGNxYIVHBCxQ1e7_rRcUqQ
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Exactly.
So the game is 'broken' first fighter turn in your viper and you would black out.
remove g force from the game, just as the game has totally unrealistic top speeds.
Its a GAME.... and should be about enjoyment.
future war planes will be unmanned because of these limitations.
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Yes my posts are instant now thanks.
I'm not getting much in the way of etiquette from existing forum members.
To be frank, read your own posts a little bit back and think about your own actions. Not judging you, have seen this way too many times, but learn something about humility, and fact you might not have all answers. That helps big time.
Quite, so strictly speaking it is not actually a "g" force if you are accelerating in space
<races to the OP's rescue, and why not ...>
g is just convenient way to express the amount of force resulting from acceleration (where Force, F = mass x acceleration) in terms of an easy reference .. One (small) "g" is what we experience everyday on the surface of planet earth (where gravitational acceleration = 9.8 m/s^2)
So the same 9.8 acceleration (or decceleration) of a ship anywhere exerts an equivalent (1g) MAGNITUDE force on the pilot but it's not actually an actual g-force, only a similar (number of multiples of the gravitational acceleration as experienced on Earth) as quick reference for snappy jargon using ray-ban wearing Chuck Yeager type top gun pilots.
Question:
1. do overweight pilots experience worser g-forces? and
2. work THAT one out
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