Tritium needs replacing

[Awesumnus Maximus]

Ships would/could never scoop from stars. Thermodynamics.
They would scoop from gas giants.
Braben copied from Traveller, but went with scooping from stars rather than gas giants because that's the centre of the system and so where you arrive. Convenience.
IT'S A GAME...

 

[mkizub]

Ships would/could never scoop from stars. Thermodynamics.

Refrigerators are not possible. Thermodynamics.

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

I don't think you understand how refrigerators would need to work in the corona of a star.
Yes...Thermodynamics.

 

[Winterwalker]

Tritium is produced naturally (on Earth) in the upper atmosphere, when cosmic rays strike atmospheric gases.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0609/ML060960589.pdf

Volatiles in Ice Asteoroid, heated in full sunshine and escaping the asteroid are fully exposed to Cosmic rays because there is no atmosphere or likely any magnetic field present. Cosmic Rays also originate from the sun or from outside of the solar system and from distant galaxies. (They were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912 in balloon experiments)

So yes, Tritium has a short half life but we're also collecting it from an environment where it can be continuously produced.

 

[mkizub]

I don't think you understand how refrigerators would need to work in the corona of a star.
Yes...Thermodynamics.

I have a higher education in physics. Want to talk about it?
Heat can be pumped away by ejecting hoter gas away and/or by radiation.
If we extract D/T/He/Li from the corona, than we need to separate them from H (which is 95% of incoming matter) and throw away that H, right?
We have enough matterial to pump heat away.
I can imagine a few others way to do this. Yes, it's not possible with current technology level, but it's not agains physic's law.

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

And when the ship melts at corona temperatures?
Want to talk about it?

 

[mkizub]

So yes, Tritium has a short half life but we're also collecting it from an environment where it can be continuously produced.

Just tell us the amount of produced Tritium. Like in upper atmosphere, right?
A few atoms is not something that can be mined. A few atoms are created and a few decay.
But D,He3,Li6,Li7 - are stable, and can be accumulated during billions years. See the difference?

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

Seriously? You're trying to debate physics where a space ship can fly in the corona of a star?

 

[mkizub]

And when the ship melts at corona temperatures?
Want to talk about it?

It does not. It reflects the radiation (like a mirror does). It does not contact with plasma by using magnetic field around.
Oh, and it has shields

Seriously? You're trying to debate physics where a space ship can fly in the corona of a star?

As you see, there is nothing unrealistic with this.

 

[Stellar Shepherd]

Oh, and it has shields

Well few of my ships would beg to differ

EDIT: don't get me wrong, I'd prefer accuracy as well. This has already been discussed.
My guess was it was named tritium because it's already familiar in gaming, somewhat.

 

[Speedcuffs]

How many people out of the tens of thousands of players are googling the half-life of Tritium?

I'm too busy Googling '500 mill per hour lulz!!!!'

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

It does not. It reflects the radiation (like a mirror does). It does not contact with plasma by using magnetic field around.
Oh, and it has shields


As you see, there is nothing unrealistic with this.

Heheheh. Well, your version of reality is just as valid as mine, I expect.
But, Braben copied Traveller, and Travller got it right.
No skimming h2 from environments that would sublimate your ship and yourself.

 

[Crank Larson]

No. My whole suspension of disbelief would come crashing down if whichspace was not real.
Didn't hawking have a theory about it? Or Turing? Or somebody?

I'm starting to think whichspace is a made up thing

Which is this whichspace to which you refer?

(Do three whiches make a coven?)

 

[Speedcuffs]

Which is this whichspace to which you refer?

Thargoid social media site.

 

[CMDR Deano The Imperial]

Haven't seen one of these threads in awhile, Armchair physicists bickering/debating over theories that can and cannot be proven.

It's a game based on realism and fantasy.

Just enjoy it for what it is.

 

[Chrystoph]

So that's why Bill is stockpiling brommies...
edit: who else thinks Bill's portrait makes hi look like a zombie. I think he might be a Thargoid plant.

Umm, Bill?

If you don't know who Stephen Hawking is, we're revoking your license to play.

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

Haven't seen one of these threads in awhile, Armchair physicists bickering/debating over theories that can and cannot be proven.

It's a game based on realism and fantasy.

Just enjoy it for what it is.

I think that was my argument.

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

Umm, Bill?

If you don't know who Stephen Hawking is, we're revoking your license to play.

Bill. He likes Brommies.

 

[Chrystoph]

Tritium is produced naturally (on Earth) in the upper atmosphere, when cosmic rays strike atmospheric gases.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0609/ML060960589.pdf

Volatiles in Ice Asteoroid, heated in full sunshine and escaping the asteroid are fully exposed to Cosmic rays because there is no atmosphere or likely any magnetic field present. Cosmic Rays also originate from the sun or from outside of the solar system and from distant galaxies. (They were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912 in balloon experiments)

So yes, Tritium has a short half life but we're also collecting it from an environment where it can be continuously produced.

If you want to follow that logic, though, you'd be hunting for individual Tritium molecules, not deposits. That was rather the reason that I suggested a breeder plant in the first place.

 

[Awesumnus Maximus]

If you don't know who Bill is then I'm revoking your right to be replied to.