Answer by controlgroup for How fast is too fast for travel inside the solar...
At your speed (around 434 km/s), a mote of dust weighing a single milligram will have an impact with the same energy as a 20-kilogram TNT explosive, so unless your ship is capable of tanking hit after...
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This speed is 4x10^5 m/s, which means the energy released after collision of a meteoroid with mass 1 kg will be 8x10^10 joules, or 2x10^4 (in kg of TNT).So, we need to estimate what is a mass of a...
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I'm looking past the science of fuels and star ship engine details at this point because I'm trying to establish speed limits around our solar system. My initial idea was to use TIME TO DESTINATION as...
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You need Deflector Shields to deal with space dust.If you want ships that are faster than real world ships, your setting will need some kind of deflector shield technology that will eat up the cost of...
View ArticleAnswer by Mark Morgan Lloyd for How fast is too fast for travel inside the...
Limiting factors:a) Speed of light.b) Pick a maximum tolerable acceleration (e.g. 2g), apply that for half of the journey (e.g. Earth to Jupiter), and measure the instantaneous speed at turnaround.I'm...
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Time to CPAWhen driving a warship, we constantly talked about Closest Point of Approach (CPA). What is the range at CPA? (1 mile, probably fine. 100 yards, that's a problem!) What is the time to CPA?...
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Physical limit is 16+ minutes in the earth sphere (orbit) - thats the speed of light.Uranus is 32+ minutes out there - means a ship at the speed of light would cross that sphere in 1h+.Its pretty...
View ArticleAnswer by John Dallman for How fast is too fast for travel inside the solar...
If you manage to overcome your colliding-with-dust problem, here's another.In space, you don't naturally slow down (except by colliding with things). While you're avoiding that, you're sustaining your...
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