Acceleration!
What other types of intertial dampeners are there?Burzmali wrote:Inertia dampeners would have to be anti-gravity at the accelerations we are talking about here.
...Maybe a really, REALLY cushy seat.
Actually... while anti-gravity is the most obvious choice, I'm sure there are other scientifically fictional methods of inertial dampening you could use... like phasing the cockpit into another dimension so that effectively any acceleration on it is zero.
I like FAD's suggestion, actually... Just give a reasonable science fiction explanation and be done with it. And for sci-fi bonus points you could call it a "Schroedinger" inertial dampening device and let people go crazy trying to figure out how it works.
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Blinzler
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I was just imagining the kind of cushy seat and I'm quite sure you'd suffocate in there while trying to fight your way back out the fluffy stuff
Anyways, realism can only go so far, after all we're playing a space-shooter with jump gates, particle weapons etc.
I think the more accurate word would be 'plausable' rather then realistic.
And for me personally part of the fun of reading/ playing Sci-Fi 'stuff' is discovering 'new things' and worlds.
I always like taking a glimpse in other people's head so to speak - peaking in on their fantasy's, creations and dreams.
On a side-note: How come most of the Sci-Fi stuff has always russian, asian or german name-givers? Or am I just imagining this?
I was just imagining the kind of cushy seat and I'm quite sure you'd suffocate in there while trying to fight your way back out the fluffy stuff
Anyways, realism can only go so far, after all we're playing a space-shooter with jump gates, particle weapons etc.
I think the more accurate word would be 'plausable' rather then realistic.
And for me personally part of the fun of reading/ playing Sci-Fi 'stuff' is discovering 'new things' and worlds.
I always like taking a glimpse in other people's head so to speak - peaking in on their fantasy's, creations and dreams.
On a side-note: How come most of the Sci-Fi stuff has always russian, asian or german name-givers? Or am I just imagining this?
Because we assume those to be relatively high-tech cultures and thus assume that they will continue to be so in the future.
...and because we know that it's a natural progression for the maker of your stereo to be making particle beam weapons in the future.
...and because we know that it's a natural progression for the maker of your stereo to be making particle beam weapons in the future.
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It's pretty easy to figure out what the accelerations would be. I took an interest in constant-boost spacecraft after reading "The Mote in God's Eye" and memorized a few useful figures. I'm about to re-check them myself to make sure, but as I recall, it would take around 1 month of accelerating at 1G to reach the speed of light.
1 G acceleration - 9.8 m/sec squared
Speed of light (in a vacuum) - 299,792,458 meters per second
299,792,458/9.8=30,591,067 seconds
30,591,067/60/60/24=354 days?
I'm either mis-remembering or misplacing a decimal point.
1 G acceleration - 9.8 m/sec squared
Speed of light (in a vacuum) - 299,792,458 meters per second
299,792,458/9.8=30,591,067 seconds
30,591,067/60/60/24=354 days?
I'm either mis-remembering or misplacing a decimal point.