Posted by: UnLimiTeD
« on: August 03, 2011, 12:20:42 PM »Awesome, isn't it?
I get exited just by thinking about it.
But I suppose it ends being a game there.
I get exited just by thinking about it.
But I suppose it ends being a game there.
I would have loved the challenge.Imagine that.
But I suppose I can't complain either way.
Aurora was designed that way originally, with real Newtonian mechanics and gravity effects and replicated real world rockets such as a Saturn V. I spent several weeks learning all I could about rocket science. In one of my attention to detail moments, I even rang up a company in the US to find out the mass of the insulation on a particular cryogenic fuel tank . However, it was just too difficult to play with real physics so I invented Trans-newtonian physics instead.
Steve
And here I was thinking it was because it would have been too much work to program /calculate very turn the inertia and acceleration of every single object....
Plotting a curve with a constant speed field shouldn't be too difficult for a computer to solve. A least time solution should be quite possible to compute although my math isn't good enough for me to give an answer instantly.
I can take a shot at it if you want.
(Constant speed towards the origin, constant magnitude vector applicable in any direction, is desired point reachable and find least time path)
Hell, this is perfect.
By only really affecting TN drives, making them accelerate towards the hole like a ship in the bathtub when you pulled the plug (they treat space like water, after all), you could actually keep wrecks in the system, being rather uninterested in the matter and not knowing what all the fuss is about.
I agree that super-massive black holes (SM-BH) would be scary. But then they would to be very _very_ rare.
Also, as the distance jumppoint - star are somewhat related to the star´s mass, the jumppoints leading to a SM-BH would probably be very far away, migiating its effect on the ship.
If we are talking about "regular" black holes, I used the 5-sun-masses just as an example. It doesn´t matter if the black hole is 5 or 20 or 50 sun-masses. It is still no different from a 5 or 20 or 50 sun-masses star (actually, the system would probably be more dangerous _before_ the star went supernova, as it will have to be a lot larger than 50 sun-masses to create a 50 sun-mass black hole)
yes, this is one of my pet-peeves with movies/books where a black hole is the end of everything.
Now, I am not against black holes, it just taxes my suspension of disbelieve to the limit
The singularity affecting TN-technology is a good thought.
Interesting,
Will a ship (that is faster than the black hole strength) also have the option to go towards the black hole and thereby greatly increasing it's speed?
Now what sense would that make?Currently, black holes make no sense simply the way they work.
Ultimately, it creates gateway systems that are only available once you have sufficient engine tech.