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Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 19:42:00 - [1] Edited by: Dark Shikari on 01/02/2006 19:41:57 The sound is entirely explained--your computer simulates it for you. The planets don't orbit in real time because the servers can't handle it. Originally by: Senlathie 5) When I blow up a pirate, my ship shakes. (Don't tell me this is an "expected" observation and my pod recreates it. lol) Your ship doesn't shake, the camera does. Its simulated. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 20:00:00 - [2] Originally by: Boonaki Next thing is the laws of physics. Given enough technology what we think of as laws (sound barrier, manned flight, going to the moon") may just be something to overcome. You cannot break the laws of physics. It may be possible to bypass them. For example, warp drive. Originally by: Boonaki What would happen if you could slow light down to travel at a 100 KPH? You cannot slow light. You can make it bounce around a lot so that overall it moves much slower. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could generate a gravity field without mass? Nothing rules that out in modern physics. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could change an objects mass without adding or subtracting mass? Conservation of energy. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 20:59:00 - [3] Originally by: RedClaws euhm... you can slow light , even stop it... it has been done , read up on some scientific articles if you're intrested It doesn't actually move slower--the material causes the path of light to become longer because of the light having to bounce more because it is inhibited by atoms and other particles in the way, IIRC. Thus it takes longer for it to move through the material. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 21:56:00 - [4] Originally by: Adisa N'kiru Originally by: Dark Shikari Originally by: RedClaws euhm... you can slow light , even stop it... it has been done , read up on some scientific articles if you're intrested It doesn't actually move slower--the material causes the path of light to become longer because of the light having to bounce more because it is inhibited by atoms and other particles in the way, IIRC. Thus it takes longer for it to move through the material. Actually you can. You're right on the bumping but it's not the longer path that does the trick. Light actually is slowed down as explained neatly in this article. Hmmm it never actually explains it, it simply references you to a Nature article... -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 22:13:00 - [5] Originally by: Jentai Cylor Originally by: Dark Shikari Originally by: Boonaki Next thing is the laws of physics. Given enough technology what we think of as laws (sound barrier, manned flight, going to the moon") may just be something to overcome. You cannot break the laws of physics. It may be possible to bypass them. For example, warp drive. Originally by: Boonaki What would happen if you could slow light down to travel at a 100 KPH? You cannot slow light. You can make it bounce around a lot so that overall it moves much slower. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could generate a gravity field without mass? Nothing rules that out in modern physics. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could change an objects mass without adding or subtracting mass? Conservation of energy. I wouldn't assume anything. All the laws are defined by our current understanding. Which in a nutshell means we can't assume anything. For example: Why can't light be slowed? Because we currently lack the technology to affect the atoms directly? Because an atom is actually a physical item at some point we will learn to manipulate it, and probably learn to adjust its speed if we desired to. Further science doesn't let you break the laws of physics. It simply might find a way to bypass them. The laws still hold. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 22:43:00 - [6] Edited by: Dark Shikari on 01/02/2006 22:43:37 Originally by: Breed Love Lol ppl, cant u even stay on topic? there are about 9349569439563 other things that arent quite in line with the laws of physics. for example: 1. the acceleration rate of ships... if some of you has flown a fast aircraft (a military or aerobatics one) you will know what i mean. 7-8g's is about how much most normal people can sustain before they "shut off". 8g is roughly 80m/s^2. That means that an object should gain 80m/s of speed each second. In eve, anything smaller than a cruiser accelerates much faster... which means that in an inty, which goes from 0 to 4-5km/s in a couple of seconds, you would be literally squashed against the wall of your pod... Read the prime fiction. Read WHY you're in a pod. Quote: 2. the attempt to make a "red shift" effect during warp... Never seen such a thing. Shouldn't exist as the outside of your view is simulated. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 22:57:00 - [7] Originally by: Breed Love Originally by: Dark Shikari Edited by: Dark Shikari on 01/02/2006 22:43:37 Originally by: Breed Love Lol ppl, cant u even stay on topic? there are about 9349569439563 other things that arent quite in line with the laws of physics. for example: 1. the acceleration rate of ships... if some of you has flown a fast aircraft (a military or aerobatics one) you will know what i mean. 7-8g's is about how much most normal people can sustain before they "shut off". 8g is roughly 80m/s^2. That means that an object should gain 80m/s of speed each second. In eve, anything smaller than a cruiser accelerates much faster... which means that in an inty, which goes from 0 to 4-5km/s in a couple of seconds, you would be literally squashed against the wall of your pod... Read the prime fiction. Read WHY you're in a pod. I've read that, now go read some books on physics and umm maybe anatomy, then calculate what kind of forces you will be exposed to. Assume the pod to be roughly 2 m in diameter and the density of the liquid inside to be about the same as that of water. Now look in the anatomy book for the pressure that the human body can be exposed to (if its there...) Compare the results... Come back here with an answer. Good luck. You can't accelerate to 4km/s or the like without an MWD, and an MWD obviously uses some sort of warp principle as it is a... micro...warp...drive. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 23:19:00 - [8] Originally by: Saeris Tal'Urduar Camara drones...yuk Okay old system before the look at function...believable (I still didnt like it) Okay new "Look at" options and drones. So that means the roids even have camera drones? Example: Looking at that Veld roid 95km away?!? And then pulling another 50km out?!? Yuk! please rewrite that piece of EVE fiction The view is just simulated... the camera drone isn't moving with your view of course. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 23:19:00 - [9] Originally by: Breed Love And besides, as a friend of mine pointed out... even if you are ok in your pod... how the feck does your crew survive? Well hell if they have warp drive they better have inertial dampers by now -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.01 23:37:00 - [10] Originally by: Saeris Tal'Urduar Originally by: Dark Shikari The view is just simulated... the camera drone isn't moving with your view of course. So why not just say; Every ship is equiped with a short (100km) hi-res scanner, that allows the pod pilot to look at (in detail) other ships and celestial objects. Don't know, but the problem with scanners is that they can always be jammed -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.02 10:32:00 - [11] Originally by: Principe Edited by: Principe on 02/02/2006 07:40:19 Originally by: Dark Shikari Originally by: Boonaki Next thing is the laws of physics. Given enough technology what we think of as laws (sound barrier, manned flight, going to the moon") may just be something to overcome. You cannot break the laws of physics. It may be possible to bypass them. For example, warp drive. Originally by: Boonaki What would happen if you could slow light down to travel at a 100 KPH? You cannot slow light. You can make it bounce around a lot so that overall it moves much slower. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could generate a gravity field without mass? Nothing rules that out in modern physics. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could change an objects mass without adding or subtracting mass? Conservation of energy. Light can be slowed down, this is actually why light "bends" when it goes through a different medium.. i.e. air to water... yes the laws of physics can be broken, actually newtonian physics falls apart at close to the speed of light, hence why quantum physics was needed and formulated. ...the light constant that everyone knows is its speed in a vacuum.. its speed is different in any other medium The actual reason it slows down is because in a material that slows light down, light is absorbed and reemitted by the material constantly. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.02 11:31:00 - [12] Originally by: BH Runner Originally by: Zed Nash In a vaccuum, there is no such thing as a "max speed". As long as accellerant is applied, an object will continue to accelerate. When accelerant is stopped, the ship will continue at it's present speed indefinately. Reverse thrusters are needed to slow or stop, which no ship has. Warping through planets/moons/stations/stars. I know, it's been explained, but still........ Corpses exploding when shot. Space isn't a vacuum. Its damn close. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.02 11:33:00 - [13] Edited by: Dark Shikari on 02/02/2006 11:32:56 Originally by: Bongo Smith - Cruise missiles being described as lift-wing, jet-engined... Well its 25000 years in the future, things might be different. Originally by: Bongo Smith - Everything based on VOLUME, not MASS. While yes, enough volume would be a problem in a cargo hold of a ship eventually, it's the mass of the cargo that will be much bigger concern much sooner. I'd assume the issue isn't mass or the ship would slow down as you load the cargo bay. Originally by: Bongo Smith - Stupid station builders pointing just about every station the wrong way: The exit seems to always point away from just about everything else in the system, so you always have to go around the station to warp anywhere. They're trying to get you to crash into the station. Originally by: Bongo Smith - Microwarpdrives aren't, since they cannot be scrambled. But they can be webbed. But they ARE affected by deadspace. Yet you can warp out of DS... Head hurts now... You can't TARGET a location in deadspace for the warp. You CAN warp in deadspace. Originally by: Bongo Smith - Lasers doing kinetic damage. How? Never seen this. What are you talking about? -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.03 00:45:00 - [14] Originally by: Locke DieDrake Originally by: Dark Shikari Originally by: Boonaki Next thing is the laws of physics. Given enough technology what we think of as laws (sound barrier, manned flight, going to the moon") may just be something to overcome. You cannot break the laws of physics. It may be possible to bypass them. For example, warp drive. Originally by: Boonaki What would happen if you could slow light down to travel at a 100 KPH? You cannot slow light. You can make it bounce around a lot so that overall it moves much slower. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could generate a gravity field without mass? Nothing rules that out in modern physics. Originally by: Boonaki What if you could change an objects mass without adding or subtracting mass? Conservation of energy. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slow+speed+of+light Its not actually slowing it. Its causing atoms to absorb the photon and re-emit it, making it take a very long time for the light to move a specific distance. When the photon is actually moving, it moves at the speed of light as it always does. -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.05 02:17:00 - [15] Originally by: Lord Drachenfels What about "accuracy falloff" on Projectile and hybrid weapons? There are no gravity to pull your projectile towards any direction Its talking about the fact that your gun's accuracy gets worse after a certain point. Nothing is "falling" except for your hit chance -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.
Dark Shikari	Posted - 2006.02.05 11:54:00 - [16] Originally by: vanBuskirk Originally by: AlexCA Originally by: Jancen Eve i have a question. since space doesnt have gravity. u shouldnt be taking any G force rite? so what are the interial dampeners for? and in RL, are ppl trying to develop them or is it out of our grasp? Gravity and G-force are not the same thing. Oh yes they are - this is precisely the point of the theory of general relativity. Someone understands relativity for once! Its amazing how many people just don't get things like that -- Proud member of the [23]. The Tachikomas are DEAD! Click sig for video.

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