Actually I wanted to talk armor for spaceships. The physical stuff, that is either the hull itself or put on the hull. The first answer was probaly...
I've actually tried to build one as a child, but I couldn't make my fuel explode in the needed way. (94% Ethanol). Maybe I should try again. I'll...
Atari 800XL - Power without the price! C64 got all the fame though. But it had some features that the Atari was lacking.
Thanks, that's good to know. I'll go back to study and look at the fans more closely. I hope I have the brains to make sense of it by myself,...
There is a point that makes me wonder since a while about jet engines. The pressure from the combustion should work in both directions, towards the...
Maybe I am wrong on this. I think I have read it in an article a while ago that the alignemenntof one blade with the plylon while the other being in...
I have the slight idea that a conenction between universes with a different set of fundamental laws, maybe even different forces than ours has, would...
Oh wow, I didn't know that! Thanks for pointing this out :)
It seems the wind flow is also reduced in front to the pylon (a zone of higher pressure and less wind speed). But you have a point there, I was...
Human perception favors symmetry quite a lot. One reason given by biologists was, that people with good body symmetry likely grew up in good...
There is also the fact that a two-blade rotor will have one blade in the wind-shadow of the pylon while the other is in full wind, having maximum...
From the article: "But as we move from 3 blades to 4 blades design, efficiency gain is marginal." It seems my basic idea was right, more blades are...
The problem that we face currently is that the formulas that we usually use give results like "infitine" at the event horizon, so we cannot really...
Just spinning the train of thoughts a bit further. Given that the graviton was not discovered at LHC yet, chances seem to be slim that a small and...
I remember that wind turbines with less blades work better, but I have a hard tiome to uinderstand why. Naively, I would think that more wind passes...
Point accepted. Vacuum still reduces it to zero at all, so I'll take that. It also reduces the mass of the ship drastically compared to a fluid,...
Usually progress becomes harder the farther one already is on the curve, but I would sassume that there never will be a full halt, just slower and...
I see. That won't work for humans though, we cannot breath water, we need fluids that contain more oxygen, and those presumably have a different...
I see. I thought you were referring to the point of evacuating the ship to reduce pressure waves and fires. But now it seems to be about force field...
Now you have me coinfused, but I guess I mis-grouped ion and plasma beams into "energy" weapons and not for their kinetic effect? Please elaborate...
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