Gravity, Our Ships, Water and my coffee
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It doesn’t look like your typical coffeemaker and mug set (nor the Krait’s), but zero gravity coffee is a real thing.
en.wikipedia.org
You can even get your own copy of the 3D printed flight cup (for show) or a porcelain version (for regular use).
spaceware.co
Edit: out of stock and not cheap to begin with, but you get the idea.
ISSpresso - Wikipedia
Spaceware
The Space Cup is a novel invention that allows for a familiar earth-like drinking experience in a zero-g environment.
spaceware.co
Edit: out of stock and not cheap to begin with, but you get the idea.
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They shower on the ISS, what's the problem?
Simple. It doesn't because that conversation was about mag boots and ship-based gravity when in space. Not planetary gravity
I do, rest assured. Developing means to have a proper Space coffee should be top priority!
Maybe space Elon Musk will devise something fancy to solve the problem in due time.
Our ships could have gravity is it had an auto pilot throttle up and pull back on the stick in normal space to simulate downward g like a plane at takeoff
Just drink your coffee from a mug with its own gravity generator
Or ferrofluid coffee and a electromagnetic cup.
No! Then Elite Dangerous becomes star trek and star wars. I want Elite Dangerous to be closer to The Expanse than to those other over done franchises.
What is better, unfortunately, is mag boots (cringe) and "Gravity Assist" thrusters on the suit. What we need for coffee is smart coffee cups and/or smart coffee where a non-harmful plastic coating (yum) is deployed over the liquid to keep it in place.
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I'm looking forward to potato chip shenanigans which ultimately lead to ant overlords taking over the ship.
Yeah, well, most of the game development doesn't work without gravity control.
As an aside, Traveller, the RPG that was one of the original source materials, has gravity control.
I hope you're right. What that you've seen in what we know of Odyssey doesn't work with out it?
Every future space saga picks and chooses everything before it (Traveler, Dune, etc), but that has very little to do with interesting game play.
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Presumably, if a weak downward-pushing force-field in our ships could simulate gravity, and our suits have shield generators (i.e. force-field generators)... then a weak upward-pushing force inside our suits could support our internal organs on high-g planets? Add power-assisted legs, and we could walk around in high g.
You cant perma accelerate at 1g. You'll be achieving relativistic speeds rather soon. Time travel for the masses, sure... in one direction only
The only ships in ED with something resembling a low-G environment are not within players reach - the imperial Majestic Class capital ships.
So yea, the coffee machine is only for certain planetary environments.
At 0.1g (coriolis stations and certain small bodies) the flow of coffee from that machine will not be a pleasant thing to clean up since the spills will be many and large
So i guess they have to rely on drinks in pressure bottles or the good old plain sucking from flexible recipients
Rotate? Thats the FSD projection matrix, with associated dispersion vanes generating the spacetime distortion along the axis of travel.
pfft - pilots
And the coffee machines- use them in gravity wells maybe?
Cups are pinned in place when in flight.
Have you not seen the expanse when the tools fly around during combat?
Cups have magnetic bases to stick to the surfaces (like our boots).
Have you not seen the expanse when they just place their cups everywhere and anywhere?
How does the coffee/tea stay inside?
Water is slightly negatively charged, you can bend lamina flow with just simple static electric charge (high-school science teacher showed us with a charged comb),
So obviously, the electric field generated by the cup for the maglock is also the key to locking the liquid in the cup by reinforcing the naturally liquid tension.
(How is that for pseudoscience )
Have you not seen the expanse when the tools fly around during combat?
Cups have magnetic bases to stick to the surfaces (like our boots).
Have you not seen the expanse when they just place their cups everywhere and anywhere?
How does the coffee/tea stay inside?
Water is slightly negatively charged, you can bend lamina flow with just simple static electric charge (high-school science teacher showed us with a charged comb),
So obviously, the electric field generated by the cup for the maglock is also the key to locking the liquid in the cup by reinforcing the naturally liquid tension.
(How is that for pseudoscience
)In The Expanse with the Epstine Drive, they travel in a straight line at partial G acceleration for half the trip and then flip and decelerate for half the trip. I really like The Expanse, but that's an area Elite Dangerous should not be like it!
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