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Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.02.15 20:53:00 -
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My only comment on the impending speed nerf is this.
Apollo 10 has the highest record for speed attained by a manned vehicle, 11.08 km/s. Almost every ship, fitted with MWD and overdrives and nanofiber, etc, can't keep up with one of our 1960's era Apollo modules. Man, the fall caused tech to backslide more than we thought.
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Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.02.15 21:03:00 -
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I reject your reality and substitute my own 
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Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.02.15 21:16:00 -
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Edited by: Taran Summers on 15/02/2007 21:12:55
Alas, he stole it from the movie the Dungeonmaster. So much like robbing a pirate. I have no moral qualms on this one 
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Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.02.15 23:48:00 -
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Any type of travel concerning extreme velocity has to do with relativistic reference frames.
Even Eve's as shown by this snippet form their tech notes.
So what is the elusive answer to FTL travel? It was found through advanced research in the field of quantum electrodynamics. By creating depleted vacuum, that is, vacuum as found in space but completely stripped of all energy, and then expanding this depleted vacuum to envelop a ship, the ship is capable of moving faster than light through this bubble of depleted vacuum. A depleted vacuum bubble is more than frictionless û it is so anti-friction that things (including light) actually move faster in it than they would in complete vacuum.
Given that note we see they're making a local condition that isolates the ship from relative measurement to any quanta by pinching off the ship and creating an isolated reference frame within which the ship isn't actually moving, I.E. Warp drive. Which moves out out of standard newtonian force action-reaction equations. I.E F=k((d(mv))/dt). And into the interesting but unproven Van Den Broeck formula's land ds^2=-dt^2+B2(rs) [(dx-vsf(rs)dt)^2 +dy^2+dz^2]  . Which once the field is established, using even the small amounts of energy EvE's MWD seems to consume, should give us much higher velocities than those observed. Especially given that we know that these ships don't really use a reaction drive system (they look like it, but have no fuel to track) and have to use a magnetic or gravitic propulsion method for sublight speeds. Throwing out the action-reaction equations also makes the mass of the ship irrelevant for propulsion purposes, and the use of the Van Den Broeck formula isolates off all the mass anyway, so yes, a battleship could accelerate as fast as its escape pod.
Yes. Its not real life (tell that to some of the Alliances, they'll wardec you fro liez and rumorzez), but its certainly fun to try to get the math to fit. |
Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.02.16 01:12:00 -
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I agree with that.
I'd prefer that they nerf the MWD's somehow though, and not the overdrives and crap. I've got a sweet transport that I've got rigged and factioned out the wazoo so it goes faster than a shuttle with 1500m3 of cargo for my boutique, high end cargo, trading work 
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