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Jon McKee
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Posted - 2011.02.15 00:16:00 -
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Who would ever venture into space without a radar screen????
So why cant we just have one that identifies threats?
I'm so sick and tired of clicking the scan button on the directional scanner....
Please......
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Vorlasha
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Posted - 2011.02.15 02:31:00 -
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 Originally by: Jon McKee
Who would ever venture into space without a radar screen????
So why cant we just have one that identifies threats?
I'm so sick and tired of clicking the scan button on the directional scanner....
Please......
Who would venture into space and wait for something that's slower than light to tell them whats around them?
Oh... wait, this isn't RL... well. The overview serves as an early warning device for what is nearby, and re-designing the wheel sounds counter-productive. And while having to click the scan button does suck, it also doesn't tie up resources constantly that a real-time "radar screen" would. |
DuKackBoon
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Posted - 2011.02.15 03:14:00 -
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FYI: Light takes over two hours for light (and by extension, Radio waves) to travel 14.5 AU. And another two hours to get back.
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Jon McKee
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Posted - 2011.02.17 23:45:00 -
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Then how about a programable timer for the scan button, say every 2 minutes it pings a scan.
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DuKackBoon
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Posted - 2011.03.16 22:37:00 -
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Originally by: Jon McKee
Oh, and btw, who said the radar would be related to the speed of light? That statement makes little technical sense.
The very name says so. RADAR = Radio Aquisition, Detection and Ranging or so...anyway, it's based on Radio-waves, which move at the speed of light.
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Kamikaze jihawt
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Posted - 2011.03.17 10:15:00 -
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as someone who fixed radar on fighter jets I can confirm that it takes about 5.36 micro seconds for light or any radio wave to travel 1 mile. there are approximately 93 million miles in the measurement of au. Therefore 93,000,000x.0000056 equals just short of 9 minutes. Therefore in order to scan something 1 au in real life should take you 18 minutes since you also have to wait for the waves to return after bouncing off a solid object. Also considering that I rounded off 93mil to the high side 18 mins would be a littile long, in reality probably about 16 to 17 mins total time. This a game however, maybe in the future they figure out how to accelerate the speed of radio waves. :)
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Lord Agger
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Carebears From heaven
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Posted - 2011.03.17 10:23:00 -
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Originally by: Kamikaze jihawt
as someone who fixed radar on fighter jets I can confirm that it takes about 5.36 micro seconds for light or any radio wave to travel 1 mile. there are approximately 93 million miles in the measurement of au. Therefore 93,000,000x.0000056 equals just short of 9 minutes. Therefore in order to scan something 1 au in real life should take you 18 minutes since you also have to wait for the waves to return after bouncing off a solid object. Also considering that I rounded off 93mil to the high side 18 mins would be a littile long, in reality probably about 16 to 17 mins total time. This a game however, maybe in the future they figure out how to accelerate the speed of radio waves. :)
  
I love it when factual data combined with laws of nature shuts down a discussion.
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