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Post by RiftandRend on Jun 22, 2017 11:06:21 GMT
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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 22, 2017 11:07:35 GMT
All hail science march
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Post by RiftandRend on Jun 22, 2017 11:12:23 GMT
On a somewhat more serious note, diamond is an adequate replacement for components and boron filaments are superior for armor use.
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Post by treptoplax on Jun 22, 2017 12:53:20 GMT
On a somewhat more serious note, diamond is an adequate replacement for components and boron filaments are superior for armor use. It's a little heavy for crew modules, though, given the 1cm minimum thickness. I can see a case for magnesium, polyethylene, and the lighter ceramics; any good candidates I'm missing?
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Post by Enderminion on Jun 22, 2017 12:59:02 GMT
nah, I have swapped to magnesium, I have heard of potassium maybe?
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Post by Rocket Witch on Jun 22, 2017 13:20:29 GMT
nah, I have swapped to magnesium, I have heard of potassium maybe? 2.34cm potassium on max length modules is cheapest even if you edit limits to allow mm thickness, but not lightest. Crew cans are technically pressure vessels like propellant tanks are, so diamond and VC steel should give the best mass ratios for them also, if you edit limits to lower the minimum thickness sufficiently.
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Post by Enderminion on Jun 22, 2017 15:53:20 GMT
well the extra thickness does allow for more armour, stock crew cabs have 1/2dm of RCC armor plating
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Post by hannibal0216 on Jul 2, 2017 0:28:45 GMT
Just got the game, what is the tragedy with Boron?
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Post by teeth on Jul 2, 2017 0:38:15 GMT
Boron used to have 3.10 gpa of strength with the same density and cost as it has now, loads of modules relied on it because of how useful it was. As it turns out that was a typo, it's really 3.10 mpa
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Post by someusername6 on Jul 2, 2017 0:42:52 GMT
Just got the game, what is the tragedy with Boron? Did you ever hear the tragedy of Boron Our Lord Savior? I thought not. It’s not a story the patch 1.1.2 would tell you. It’s a CDE legend. Boron was a fusile material, so powerful and so cheap it could be used for almost any engineering application -- armor, blades, momentum wheels, propellant tanks... It had such a high melting point and Young Modulus that he could even be the base of most layered armor schemes. The Amorphous Boron material is a pathway to many engineering properties some consider to be unnatural. It was considered so powerful... the only thing we were afraid of was it being nerfed, which eventually, of course, it was. Unfortunately, we used it in most of the designs we knew, then the patch 1.1.2 nerfed it in his non-filament form. Ironic. It could save others from death, but not itself.
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Post by Enderminion on Jul 2, 2017 0:52:18 GMT
Boron used to have 3.10 gpa of strength with the same density and cost as it has now, loads of modules relied on it because of how useful it was. As it turns out that was a typo, it's really 3.10 mpa less desity, it used to have 2100kg/m^3 now its 2300kg/m^3
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Post by gedzilla on Jul 2, 2017 6:24:17 GMT
Just got the game, what is the tragedy with Boron? Did you ever hear the tragedy of Boron Our Lord Savior? I thought not. It’s not a story the patch 1.1.2 would tell you. It’s a CDE legend. Boron was a fusile material, so powerful and so cheap it could be used for almost any engineering application -- armor, blades, momentum wheels, propellant tanks... It had such a high melting point and Young Modulus that he could even be the base of most layered armor schemes. The Amorphous Boron material is a pathway to many engineering properties some consider to be unnatural. It was considered so powerful... the only thing we were afraid of was it being nerfed, which eventually, of course, it was. Unfortunately, we used it in most of the designs we knew, then the patch 1.1.2 nerfed it in his non-filament form. Ironic. It could save others from death, but not itself. Its treason then
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Post by dwwolf on Jul 3, 2017 18:32:08 GMT
*cough*notepad++*cough*
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