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Sounds like spec to me

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:46 pm
by Breakable
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/2 ... ngine.html
Are scientist just copy-pasting vega-strike ideas? ;)

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:59 pm
by loki1950
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.

Enjoy the Choice :)

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:09 pm
by Link
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.

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:03 pm
by Joe B
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.

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:14 pm
by loki1950
Doing away with inertia was also a popular fictional hack to obtain FTL lots of inertia-less drives in pre-50's SF.

Enjoy the Choice :)

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:37 am
by Joe B
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?

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:59 am
by loki1950
By the way how do you use the nav computer anyways?
I don't :wink: 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.

Enjoy the Choice :)