Killswitch. Occupational Health and Safety Standard.
Why doesn't heat increase the faster you go in supercruise?
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Because running into a hail of bullets from a battle thousands if not millions of miles away would be bad if not exceedingly rare.
It's extremely hard to dissapate heat in space - there isn't anything for the heat to transfer to so it mostly just sits there, building up.Doesn't space have a constant background temperature of some −270°C ? (other than the little fan heater in the cockpit to stop us all turning in to a snowman) just for the fact that our ships heat up in the first place is just poor ship design. Unless you're orbiting a sun, there's no logical way any ship could over heat with a −270°C backdrop. It'd be like trying to over-heat a V8 submerged in liquid nitrogen....
Space isn't exactly 'cooled down' to 0k - it's more like being in a space with a complete lack of temperature!
Because while we have a lore explanation for supercruise travel, the lore for hyperjumps is more like... ooooh witch-space...
go figure
Yes indeed. Exactly the principle of the vacuum flask.
The distance is the same so it takes the same time.
All i can think about in relation to this is the trip to Hutton could get a whole lot dangerous if you want to get there in minimum time.
Mug of spacetime?
Wasn't it decided once that ED space was based on 'fluidic space', so as not to over complicate the flight model....? Remember threads from years ago.
Lashings of handwavium irons out the creases, and elements of gamey mc game explain certain physics that would otherwise cause one to pokey mc poke..
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRIUJzmkC0
EDIT: probably the best clip in a game, other than Yennefer getting all birth suited up...
Lashings of handwavium irons out the creases, and elements of gamey mc game explain certain physics that would otherwise cause one to pokey mc poke..
EDIT: probably the best clip in a game, other than Yennefer getting all birth suited up...
At those speeds (lets say just below c) space inside solar systems is anything but vacuum....
That opens a can of worms when arguing that your ship should not need to vent for gamey reasons
If it takes proximity to a sun to make your ship cook, how can a piddly lazer shunt you to 150% heat. Also, if in close proximity to a sun roasting you to hell and back, why does a heat sink cool your ship down? How can heat radiate in radiated heat...Fortunately handwavium solves all these issues.
good idea! planet breaking making you hot would be very cool!
but that's just trying to justify fantasy physics. no need, it's fantasy ;-)
the detailed mechanism of space folding is unknown so we don't know squat about its energy profile, but folding space sure doesn't come for free. if i got this right, the basic problem of alcubierre drives is (besides the supply of exotic matter) that it needs to violate energy conditions. it's just ... indistinguishable of magic.
that's the point of heatsinks, they don't radiate. you drop heat by actually ejecting hot mass. by definition not a sustainable procedure.
Yeah the wing bacon which is sadly always turned off by default.
Is it just me...
or is the idea of moving the entire universe around your ship vs just moving the ship itself extremely fast just a bit ridiculous?
I know nothing with mass can reach the speed of light, blah blah... don't get all PhD on me.
If maximum realism is the goal we should "jump" everywhere, even to other planets in system.
or is the idea of moving the entire universe around your ship vs just moving the ship itself extremely fast just a bit ridiculous?
I know nothing with mass can reach the speed of light, blah blah... don't get all PhD on me.
If maximum realism is the goal we should "jump" everywhere, even to other planets in system.
Maximum Realism?
Let's see... Voyager was launched in 1977 and reached the heliopause in 2012.
No thanks
I'd rather play ED
Inadequate wording on my part.
Maximum realism with practical travel times