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Post by Officer Genious on Aug 7, 2016 21:59:50 GMT -5
Two questions: 1: What exactly are solar sails? 2: What happens during a radiation storm? Cory Trese and fallen, please oh Lore masters bestow unto me thy knowledge! |
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Post by resistor on Aug 7, 2016 22:17:16 GMT -5
Water-Fuel section in the Introduction in the Help file:
"The heavy isotope also makes it suitable for use in solar sail applications. Solar Sails are deployed by pumping water-fuel into kilometers-long microfilament structures, and retracted by pumping the water-fuel back out of the sails and into the tanks. In a deployed solar sail, the massive, actively-energized tritium isotope interacts dynamically with the solar radiation, absorbing the energy and then re-radiating the energy in an amplified and directed form, giving greatly increased thrust."
Unfortunately, I can only answer your first question. |
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Post by ntsheep on Aug 7, 2016 22:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by fallen on Aug 7, 2016 22:56:50 GMT -5
2: What happens during a radiation storm? Speculative article on what would happen to earth in a radiation storm -- if a solar flare was big enough to hit us. "A mid- to large-sized solar flare would send waves of high energy radiation — x rays and ultraviolet light — zipping toward the Earth. These types of radiation are powerful enough to rip electrons off of atoms. That’s exactly what they start doing when they hit the upper portion of our atmosphere, known as the ionosphere. Basically, the sky gets zapped with a giant electromagnetic pulse." |
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Post by Officer Genious on Aug 8, 2016 12:12:29 GMT -5
2: What happens during a radiation storm? Speculative article on what would happen to earth in a radiation storm -- if a solar flare was big enough to hit us. "A mid- to large-sized solar flare would send waves of high energy radiation — x rays and ultraviolet light — zipping toward the Earth. These types of radiation are powerful enough to rip electrons off of atoms. That’s exactly what they start doing when they hit the upper portion of our atmosphere, known as the ionosphere. Basically, the sky gets zapped with a giant electromagnetic pulse." Interesting. I'll do some more research and figure out what that does to people. |
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Post by Officer Genious on Aug 8, 2016 12:48:28 GMT -5
2: What happens during a radiation storm? Speculative article on what would happen to earth in a radiation storm -- if a solar flare was big enough to hit us. "A mid- to large-sized solar flare would send waves of high energy radiation — x rays and ultraviolet light — zipping toward the Earth. These types of radiation are powerful enough to rip electrons off of atoms. That’s exactly what they start doing when they hit the upper portion of our atmosphere, known as the ionosphere. Basically, the sky gets zapped with a giant electromagnetic pulse." Doing my research. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you and your brother are total nerds. How many game designers take solar flares, geomagnetic storms and solar winds and turn it into a minor trap card in a space game? Kinda blowing my mind here. |
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Post by fallen on Aug 8, 2016 12:50:52 GMT -5
Officer Genious - lol, yes, nerds of the finest quality  Thank you! I take that as a major compliment.
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Post by Officer Genious on Aug 8, 2016 12:58:53 GMT -5
Officer Genious - lol, yes, nerds of the finest quality Thank you! I take that as a major compliment. Please do! My head is spinning trying to wrap everything around my head and this is just a relatively minor part of the game. It's seriously mind-blowing. |
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Post by poryg on Aug 9, 2016 0:44:42 GMT -5
Officer Genious - lol, yes, nerds of the finest quality Thank you! I take that as a major compliment. Please do! My head is spinning trying to wrap everything around my head and this is just a relatively minor part of the game. It's seriously mind-blowing. On the other hand, I abide by the KISS rule  but again, that is the awesomeness of ST RPG, the approaches you can take towards everything, including in game things |
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Thank you! I take that as a major compliment.
but again, that is the awesomeness of ST RPG, the approaches you can take towards everything, including in game things