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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 16, 2017 14:19:35 GMT
samchiu2000 The Astronomer Ok, which is the nearest that has a gas giant? RKKV are only useful If you have enough threats around. Probably AEgir, around Ran, ~10.49 ly away. |
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Post by samchiu2000 on Jun 16, 2017 14:20:04 GMT
samchiu2000 The Astronomer Ok, which is the nearest that has a gas giant? RKKV are only useful If you have enough threats around. Maybe this one is what you want?  |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 16, 2017 14:24:53 GMT
samchiu2000 The Astronomer Ok, which is the nearest that has a gas giant? RKKV are only useful If you have enough threats around. Probably AEgir, around Ran, ~10.49 ly away. You mean Epsilon Eridani? |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 16, 2017 14:27:58 GMT
samchiu2000 The Astronomer Ok, which is the nearest that has a gas giant? RKKV are only useful If you have enough threats around. Maybe this one is what you want? Helium-3 mining on a Brown-dwarf? |
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Post by samchiu2000 on Jun 16, 2017 14:32:07 GMT
Maybe thisΒ one is what you want?Β Helium-3 mining on a Brown-dwarf? Maybe it's not mentioned in the link, but it is observed that a gas giant with a mass of ~10 Jupiter may orbiting our second closest stellar neighbor. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 16, 2017 14:49:09 GMT
Helium-3 mining on a Brown-dwarf? Maybe it's not mentioned in the link, but it is observed that a gas giant with a mass of ~10 Jupiter may orbiting our second closest stellar neighbor. That planet haven't been confirmed yet. |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 16, 2017 14:51:56 GMT
Maybe it's not mentioned in the link, but it is observed that a gas giant with a mass of ~10 Jupiter may orbiting our second closest stellar neighbor. That planet haven't been confirmed yet. Can't we just mine the star? A brown-dwarf is in most way an oversized gas giant. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 16, 2017 15:30:43 GMT
Anyways! Read the effect of the RKKV on planets here. |
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Post by apophys on Jun 16, 2017 15:53:59 GMT
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Post by Hicks on Jun 17, 2017 10:37:00 GMT
That planet haven't been confirmed yet. Can't we just mine the star? A brown-dwarf is in most way an oversized gas giant. Well, not right now, but with a... sufficient ammount of solar industrialization you could start Star Lifting. |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 17, 2017 11:23:32 GMT
Can't we just mine the star? A brown-dwarf is in most way an oversized gas giant. Well, not right now, but with a... sufficient ammount of solar industrialization you could start Star Lifting. I mean mining a brown dwarf, their surface temp is around 700-2200K. There are many materials that can withstand such temperatures. |
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Post by samchiu2000 on Jun 18, 2017 13:11:27 GMT
Well, not right now, but with a... sufficient ammount of solar industrialization you could start Star Lifting. I mean mining a brown dwarf, their surface temp is around 700-2200K. There are many materials that can withstand such temperatures. Maybe the gravity will make the mining operation a bit too difficult  |
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Post by samchiu2000 on Jun 18, 2017 13:29:02 GMT
Bonus: How to burn terra with 10 2000 tons 0.3c RKV~  |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 18, 2017 13:37:16 GMT
I mean mining a brown dwarf, their surface temp is around 700-2200K. There are many materials that can withstand such temperatures. Maybe the gravity will make the mining operation a bit too difficult I don't think that this would be a problem, the gravity would be 25x lower than the sun. I also found an alternative way to accelerating an RKKV, track propulsion. With only only 27.6kT D-HeΒ³ you could accelerate an 2.67kT spaceship with 10m/s for 27.6 million seconds. Accelerating it to 0.92c. For comparison, the Valkyrie uses antimatter as fuel and needs an mass ratio of 22kT/1kT to reach the same velocity. Track Propulsion: It uses a pre-seeded, also known as "bomb-tracks" for Orion drives. These pre-seeded tracks are filled with propellant which can be used by the fusion ships. Because the ship doesn't carry any significant amount of fuel on it's own it escapes the tyranny of the rocket equation. |
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Post by ππππππππππ on Jun 19, 2017 10:27:14 GMT
could you mod this game to model planetary collisions like the Universe sandbox? then you could actually fire a relativistic planet at another planet and see what happens.
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