Re: Space, the final frontier

How does being an engineer for 30 years make one the absolute authority on what goes on in space? The message he's giving is 'we're already wasting billions on our space program, let's spend even more on a huge spaceship!' when he hardly seems to understand the happenings on the I.S.S.

Also, why was the thread locked? I saw Shiva cursing a lot but I don't understand why..

I think it went off topic.

Lord Mackeroth wrote:

I think it went off topic.

REALLY? An thread in the Off-Topic section went off topic. Who cares? I though we only cared about all the other threads XD

Sir Tielton wrote:

How does being an engineer for 30 years make one the absolute authority on what goes on in space? The message he's giving is 'we're already wasting billions on our space program, let's spend even more on a huge spaceship!' when he hardly seems to understand the happenings on the I.S.S.

I think the point he is trying to make is that the space program needs to stop standing around with its thumbs up its ass and start being more productive. The I.S.S. is more of a research institution for esrth-based technologies than anything else;'it's time we start making progress in other areas as well.

Khmac wrote:

Lord Mackeroth wrote:

I think it went off topic.

REALLY? An thread in the Off-Topic section went off topic. Who cares? I though we only cared about all the other threads XD

The off-topic section is about threads that are not related to the mod, not threads that are supposed to go off topic.

Avenger_7 wrote:

Sir Tielton wrote:

How does being an engineer for 30 years make one the absolute authority on what goes on in space? The message he's giving is 'we're already wasting billions on our space program, let's spend even more on a huge spaceship!' when he hardly seems to understand the happenings on the I.S.S.

I think the point he is trying to make is that the space program needs to stop standing around with its thumbs up its ass and start being more productive. The I.S.S. is more of a research institution for esrth-based technologies than anything else;'it's time we start making progress in other areas as well.

Khmac wrote:

Lord Mackeroth wrote:

I think it went off topic.

REALLY? An thread in the Off-Topic section went off topic. Who cares? I though we only cared about all the other threads XD

The off-topic section is about threads that are not related to the mod, not threads that are supposed to go off topic.

Meh. There isn't a rule that says that... >_> Is there?

It got locked because Shiva got mad that you all didn't instantly accept the idea and worship her for thinking of it. Now, I could care less about that, but then she edited my post.

Keon wrote:

It got locked because Shiva got mad that you all didn't instantly accept the idea and worship her for thinking of it. Now, I could care less about that, but then she edited my post.

Hey I'm all for awesome space ships and travelling in space and all, just... not the enterprise, dammit.

It may be an icon. But seriously, couldn't they of used their imagination?

Well, in all seriousness, we know ships will be borg cubes/spheres. Unless they care about aesthetics, which they won't if aesthetics costs them 1000000000 monies.

Keon wrote:

Well, in all seriousness, we know ships will be borg cubes/spheres. Unless they care about aesthetics, which they won't if aesthetics costs them 1000000000 monies.

I think that they will be designed for efficiency, but not made to that extent.

Borg cubes are not aerodynamic, which is actually important in space. At the velocities those ships would necessarily attain for interplanetary travel, the impact of a small object on a perpendicular angle will probably result in the deaths of everyone on the ship. That is why the Enterprise is a good design, the main populated area has a high angle of deflection.

Avenger_7 wrote:

Borg cubes are not aerodynamic, which is actually important in space. At the velocities those ships would necessarily attain for interplanetary travel, the impact of a small object on a perpendicular angle will probably result in the deaths of everyone on the ship. That is why the Enterprise is a good design, the main populated area has a high angle of deflection.

You do know that deflector shields serve exactly that purpose?

Ivan2006 wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

Borg cubes are not aerodynamic, which is actually important in space. At the velocities those ships would necessarily attain for interplanetary travel, the impact of a small object on a perpendicular angle will probably result in the deaths of everyone on the ship. That is why the Enterprise is a good design, the main populated area has a high angle of deflection.

You do know that deflector shields serve exactly that purpose?

We don't have deflector shields.

Lord Mackeroth wrote:

Ivan2006 wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

Borg cubes are not aerodynamic, which is actually important in space. At the velocities those ships would necessarily attain for interplanetary travel, the impact of a small object on a perpendicular angle will probably result in the deaths of everyone on the ship. That is why the Enterprise is a good design, the main populated area has a high angle of deflection.

You do know that deflector shields serve exactly that purpose?

We don't have deflector shields.

But... but I already built a missile launcher for my Borg cube!

and i built a borg cube for my borg cube. didn't work.

yo, dawg

I put a borg cube, in your borg cube, so you can dowhateverthehellborgsdo, while you dowhateverthehellborgsdo




anyway, shiva seems to take people disagreeing with her very badly

Avenger_7 wrote:

Borg cubes are not aerodynamic, which is actually important in space. At the velocities those ships would necessarily attain for interplanetary travel, the impact of a small object on a perpendicular angle will probably result in the deaths of everyone on the ship. That is why the Enterprise is a good design, the main populated area has a high angle of deflection.

Unfortunately, the Enterprise also has many extremely weak areas that, if struck by small object and those velocities, would tear the ship apart. Namely, those little twigs of metal that hold the saucer, the engines, and the central section in one piece.

Why would aerodynamics be important in space...?

Sir Tielton wrote:

Why would aerodynamics be important in space...?

I said nothing about aerodynamics.

But Avenger did.

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Sir Tielton wrote:

But Avenger did.

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And then he also said that they were unimportant.

He said aerodynamics in space are 'actually important'.

He said that an aerodynamic designs high angles of deflections were also needed in space, not that it had to be aerodynamic, just similar to an aerodynamic design


I think

Sir Tielton wrote:

He said aerodynamics in space are 'actually important'.

Oh, coulda sworn that read "actually not important", but I guess it must have to do with the deflective surfaces in the rest of his argument.

It's two sentences. Contradiction is unfeasible.