Sounds like spec to me

Breakable · Post by **Breakable** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:46 pm

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/2 ... ngine.html
Are scientist just copy-pasting vega-strike ideas?

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:59 pm

Does indeed look like our warp drive with some concert mathematical hooks the basic idea is very old though remember some pulp age SF that used similar concepts.

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Link · Post by **Link** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:09 pm

SPEC is hardly one of Vega Strike's inventions. The concept of moving bubbles of space-time was proposed by Alcubierre in 1994 (and since I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to sci-fi chronology, it might have been proposed in less [mathematical] seriousness before then).

And as to the implementation of it in Real Lifeâ„¢...

Exactly how the 11th dimension would be expanded and shrunk is still unknown.

"That's about the amount of energy you'd get if you converted the entire mass of Jupiter into pure energy via E = mc^2," said Cleaver, an energy far beyond anything humanity can currently envision creating.

Those quotes pretty much sum up how realistic this is at present day.

Joe B · Post by **Joe B** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:03 pm

Probably the wrong place for this, but does and one think they could incorporate a Heechee FTL drive into Vegastrike? It basicly works like this:

reduce a ship's mass to nearly zero while thrusting, therfore accelerating.

Read up on it and decide if its any good.

Post by **loki1950** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:14 pm

Doing away with inertia was also a popular fictional hack to obtain FTL lots of inertia-less drives in pre-50's SF.

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Joe B · Post by **Joe B** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:37 am

but heechee drives actually make sense for Vega Strike, since some of the more expensive turn enhancers reduce the ship's mass. if one could have a drive that did that, then somehow interface it with the nav computer.

By the way how do you use the nav computer anyways?

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:59 am

By the way how do you use the nav computer anyways?

I don't

i haven't figured it out either i use the 3D map utility in the Dev Tools and User utilities section it's out of game though so requires some planning before you launch the game.

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