Question about people and objects inside the stations

CMDR Endincite

CMDR Endincite
I think FDev is on record calling FSD/SC the "Big Lie". With everything else they try for a hard sci-fi approach, that is, actual science wherever it's not a serious problem for gameplay (e.g. we have velocity limits when flying and such). We're barely beginning to understand how gravity functions at a basic level; no indication that you could e.g. generate the gravity of a planet without having the actual mass of a planet.

Shields though are another "lie" afaik, sci-fi ubiquity notwithstanding. There's *nothing* similar IRL that I've heard of, either that can be "emitted" outward (at no point contacting the ship) in the way they are, or that can stop things (projectiles) going one way but not the other, or that would stop lasers (EM), at all. Plasma walls are the closest thing and they don't fit any of the above. They're emitted more like a Star Trek forcefield, from one side of an opening to the other.
 
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CMDR Endincite

CMDR Endincite
Indeed, that seems like more of a pulse than a stable field but it could be promising.
Again it wouldn't do a thing to a laser afaik, or a slug projectile.
 
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yolomcbobbinz

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Bondrewd The Novel said:
I have a little question generally referred to the life of the inhabitants and pilots of the world of dangerous elite: but on ED ships we have gravity generators or similar technologies that simulate gravity artificially? I mean while we are traveling away from the stations ... do our ships create a minor gravity range or do we use all (including passengers) magnetic boots?
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We're gorilla glued to our seats there's no AG in elite
 

Manticore

Manticore
The first operational Coriolis station was seen in orbit around Lave in 2752, presenting the uniform standard of GalCop space ports for years to come. Designed at the GASEC (Galactic Astronautic and Space Exploration Center) laboratories at Vetitice (around which the semi-functional prototype still orbits) it represented a milestone in space habitat achievement. As previous, far more vulnerable old-school designs were proven surprisingly inferior, and the economic strength of the Galactic Co-operative flexed its new muscles, an unprecedented boom across the known galaxies saw Coriolis stations simultaneously constructed in massive numbers.
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http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Coriolis_Station_(Oolite)

Before construction of the first station engineers and architects did extensive research on enabling artificial gravity. Here are their proof of concept videos:

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Tacyon

Tacyon
Well consider this, if those trucks and mega buses would travel in the opposite direction of station spin, a quick pop to the suspension or a bump in the road would cause them to leave the inner surface and float around until something ran into them.

Check out for video of a pilot with his SRV in the station. (for reasons) It can't land and therefore has no down force applied. It just floats around while things bump into it.
 

Avago Earo

Banned
Avago Earo
maboleth said:
Yes, why don't outposts rotate and stations do?
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Because Outposts don't need to. They are small utilitarian units with a few staff wearing magna boots. The stations are huge complexes with a population living on the outer levels, and ship stuff done in the central hub where the centrifugal force is less effective, therefore allowing more massive objects to be manoeuvred with less effort.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
maboleth said:
Yes, why don't outposts rotate and stations do?
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Stations rotate in order to create some kind of gravity, so that cups and cats roughly stay where you put them down (and also so that the Docking Computer can play "Blue Danube" in hommage to 2001). But fir that, they'll have to be symmetrical and big enough.
Outposts are too small to create any useful pseudo-gravity while still being dockable, but some of them have a kind of centrifuge arrangement
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Manticore

Manticore
maboleth said:
Another question: why angular momentum...............?
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I was wondering that with regard to Coriolis Effect on stations that had parkland environments. Possibly over long periods of rotation lakes may develop circular currents...

In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial force that acts on objects that are in motion relative to a rotating reference frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise rotation, the force acts to the right. Deflection of an object due to the Coriolis force is called the Coriolis effect. Though recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels. Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

Newton's laws of motion describe the motion of an object in an inertial (non-accelerating) frame of reference. When Newton's laws are transformed to a rotating frame of reference, the Coriolis force and centrifugal force appear. Both forces are proportional to the mass of the object. The Coriolis force is proportional to the rotation rate and the centrifugal force is proportional to its square. The Coriolis force acts in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis and to the velocity of the body in the rotating frame and is proportional to the object's speed in the rotating frame (more precisely, to the component of its velocity that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation). The centrifugal force acts outwards in the radial direction and is proportional to the distance of the body from the axis of the rotating frame. These additional forces are termed inertial forces, fictitious forces or pseudo forces. They allow the application of Newton's laws to a rotating system. They are correction factors that do not exist in a non-accelerating or inertial reference frame.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

Rotational inertia and Newton...there's your angular momentum based on my vague knowledge of physics, but I could be totally wrong about that.

o7!
 
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