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Post by Enderminion on May 4, 2017 13:18:12 GMT
ok you're gun has sligtly more impact energy, only like four megajoules more
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Post by The Astronomer on May 4, 2017 13:20:33 GMT
well duh you have graphene, whats that stuff not good for? It's very good at conducting heat, so it's not good at insulation. |
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Post by bigbombr on May 4, 2017 13:42:25 GMT
well duh you have graphene, whats that stuff not good for? It's very good at conducting heat, so it's not good at insulation. It also conducts electricity fairly well, so it doesn't make for a good insulator. It's also low density, so it doesn't make for good ballast. It's also very strong, so it doesn't make for a good disposable wrapping. The stuff isn't magnetic either. For everything else, like bulletproof cloaks and spaceship armour to microscopic sensors and structural material, it's awesome. |
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Post by Dhan on May 4, 2017 19:43:42 GMT
A-HA I GOTS IT, PICTURES!!!   the gun only masses 2,090 tons but the turret masses 42 kilotons   I don't mean to alarm you, but there appears to be a spaceship attached to your giant rail gun. |
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Post by teeth on May 5, 2017 1:25:44 GMT
The NTRs with 100 grams of uranium running a few kelvin from meltdown have always annoyed me, so I decided to make something a bit more realistic at the cost of performance.  |
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Post by ash19256 on May 5, 2017 1:27:38 GMT
The NTRs with 100 grams of uranium running a few kelvin from meltdown have always annoyed me, so I decided to make something a bit more realistic at the cost of performance. Why aren't you using LOX Silane? You can get better performance. |
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Post by teeth on May 5, 2017 1:34:09 GMT
Why aren't you using LOX Silane? You can get better performance. I didn't have any combustion fuel mods installed at the time because I never used conventional rockets, but I'll try that during my next session. |
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Post by ash19256 on May 5, 2017 1:35:47 GMT
Why aren't you using LOX Silane? You can get better performance. I didn't have any combustion fuel mods installed at the time because I never used conventional rockets, but I'll try that during my next session. I will note that you might not be able to reduce the size much if you use Silane, due to the fact that Silane LOX uses less LOX, which is much more dense than the Silane component, but you should be able to reduce the overall fuel mass some due to the fact that Silane LOX gets higher exhaust velocities. |
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Post by Owlfeathers on May 5, 2017 4:21:53 GMT
Nightgaunt-class frigate, a smallish multirole vessel. 
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Post by Argopeilacos on May 5, 2017 6:53:23 GMT
A-HA I GOTS IT, PICTURES!!!the gun only masses 2,090 tons but the turret masses 42 kilotons [...] Can't you improve efficiency by increasing the capacitor separation? |
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Post by Enderminion on May 5, 2017 11:04:30 GMT
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Post by samchiu2000 on May 5, 2017 11:56:39 GMT
Why don't use electrical acutator for your GIANT railgun Enderminion? |
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Post by Enderminion on May 5, 2017 12:56:12 GMT
Why don't use electrical acutator for your GIANT railgun Enderminion ? double the mass for the same speed |
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Post by samchiu2000 on May 5, 2017 13:01:27 GMT
Why don't use electrical acutator for your GIANT railgun Enderminion ? double the mass for the same speed So the old way perform best? Quite surprising~ |
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Post by bigbombr on May 5, 2017 13:09:13 GMT
The current iteration of my heavy laserstar L Sol Invictus uses 5 of these: 185 t, 1.69 Mc.  |
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