Recent content by Lunar Pilot

Well, if heat's the problem. . . . There's always the unobtainium material found in the movie ''The Core''. Any heat will just end up strengthening it.

Spacecraft resonance Actually it's a little easier than you think. If I remember correctly, back in the Apollo program, the planners had to be very careful about launches becaus the vibrations of the 1st stage rocket engines were extremely close the the resonance of the entire Saturn 5 stack.

Martian Communication Wouldn't a far simpler solution be just to put a satellite in the same orbit as Mars, but exactly 90 degrees behind it, so that when Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, we can relay all communications through the satellite. And it wouldn't require a solar...

Magnetic Fields What if you use magnetic fields outrigged around the spacecraft, overlapping, so that you still have the protective magnetic fields, but none of the electronics are in the magnetic field.

Just to let you know, it's a lot harder to achieve resonance in a space craft than you think, since different materials have different resonance frequencies.

Whoops No, I just need to figure out how to use TransX instead of Transfer.

Crashing into Earth You actually manage to get back to Earth? How do you do it, I always fly out of the Earth/Moon System watching the green planet getting smaller in the window :dry:

heat Depends on what kind of atmosphere it has.

Landing on the Sun I don't like flying real close to the Sun, it get's all weird when the Sun fills up half the screen. Although it is fun to turn on unlimited fuel, and turned the engines on full pointed straight at the sun. You end up flying out of the solar system spinning out of control at...

10 That was mindbending.

Twin Paradox From what I remember, the twin in space ages less because he has experienced less time than the twin on Earth, simply because he was traveling faster than the other twin.

Has anyone ever tried building a simulator like those you find at places like the National Air and Space Museum, or at amusement parks, but for Orbiter? Because I thought it would be really cool to build one for one of the DG's or the space shuttle, or another spaceplane.

Hunter gatherers, tech indistiguishable from magic You do realize that those two things are favorites in science fiction stories right? Finding other type E planets with humanlike creatures on them?

Artificial Magnetic Field Well, that's a very good idea, but we just can't make a field that big, the only way we could do that would be to restart the Martian core, but since it's frozen, we'd have to melt it. Besides, we don't even know exactly how the Earth produces it's magnetic field...

Why the atmosphere I don't think the atmosphere of the moon is enough to change anything about the feather. It's like saying we should take solar neutrinos into account when we measure Earth's orbit around the sun