Recent content by docabn

To heck with alive or dead. Go with sentient or not. Alive simply means that there is a possible new set of recources to exploit. Sentient could mean that too if you are and evil dictator, but it more so represents the ability to exchange ideas that would be novel and lead to greater...

Awesome ship. I am particularly fond of the cockpit Excellent work

awsome looking ship :thumbup: (too busy to fly it seriously at the moment anyway) so it gives me something to look forward to at the end of this semester. Think I'll take an entire weekend and fly to triton or something. :)

I agree it is not news until you find it, but finding it may reinforce romantic investment in space travel amongst those who otherwise would not invest (not just fincial investment but emotional and educational as well). It would also help projects like SETI.

I agree, and may it be another 65 million more years before someone thinks its a good idea. As a proffesional pessimist I do fear that most of us will live to see the next one. More I'm disappointed that so many were detonated on earth and not more behind an orion taking man to mars and...

TY, I had not thought of the consequences of an amonia coolant leak.

I have a technical question? but first Woo Hooo :woohoo: and congradulations :cheers:to the successful EVA!!! Why is this pump on the outside of the station? I'm sure there is a good reason for this, but if it were inside the EVA would have been unnessisary. And our heroes would not have...

:cool: nice work!!!

Not sure I agree that they work as well or are cheaper. In space and mass is money. AFAIK the amount bang to mass ratio is still much higher in nuclear weapons than conventional high explosives. And if your going to make a shape charge the higher the potency of your charge the smaller the whole...

I was just thinking about the whole nukes not being as effective in space thing and your right. They would make for horrible wasteful weapons if they were used the way they are used on the surface. They get most of their destruction fron the fact that they take the objects at their epicenter and...

As for fighting in orbit: It has been my experience that in RL, who every owns the top of the deck owns the battlefield and the battlefield is three dimensional. In modern warfare LEO is the top of the deck Satellites relay the information to your aircraft, UAVs and forces on the ground. They...

shoot first, shoot fast, shoot often...:yes: yeah fire superior fire power is always the best option but good standoff, thick armor, and a small target profile help too.:hmm:

This is how I envisioned this working: Imagine an empty but sealed coke can floating in a 2L Coke Bottle but filled with water of course. put it into space and let it freeze, most of the way. Use a pluming system to constantly move the water inward toward the center of the bottle near the can...

Heck with a liquid mirror. Make the entire exterior out of liquid encased in glass with a energy scattering bacground made of a material similar to the tiles on the shuttle. The fluid is kept constantly circulating and run the fluid through trubines that take advantage of the heated fluid...

I would recommend Xanax or an SSRI such as bupropion, and probably some counseling to treat that particular phobia. ;)