Beta and Higher Patron Notice
Added 2015-11-14 02:59:40 +0000 UTCSLOWER THAN LIGHT
added new section Laser Sail
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail
added new section Starwisp
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail--Starwisp
added new section Laser-Pushed Lightsail
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail--Laser-Pushed_Lightsail
expanded section Wahkopen Zomos
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Starships--Encounter_With_Tiber--Wahkopem_Zomos
added new section Rocheworld
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Starships--Rocheworld
SPACE STATION
added new section McDonnell Douglas Phase B
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacestations.php#id--Designs--McDonnell_Douglas_Phase_B
WARSHIP DESIGN
added a quote from Joint Strike Starfighter: X-Wings, F–35s, And The Logistics Of Carrier Battles
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.php#id--Ship_Design_Analysis--Eamon_Hamilton's_Analysis
SENSOR DECK
added new section Gravity Gradiometer
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sensordeck.php#id--Gravity_Gradiometer
GEAR
added to Tricorders a news item about sonic sensor technology
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crewgear.php#sonictricorder
INTERSTELLAR COLONIZATION
expanded section Bamboo with description of bamboo charcoal and a quote from Bioethanol Production from Bamboo
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarcolony.php#id--Growing_a_Colony--Bamboo
MATTER TRANSMITTER
added new section Weaponized Transmats
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/transmat.php#id--Weaponized_Transmats
LIFE SUPPORT
added to Medicine-Drugs: a quote from The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge about Killalc, a quote from Fantastic Voyage about Morphogen, a comment about Rocheworld's No-Die, and a mention of the Methuen Treatment
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#id--Human_Factors--Space_Medicine--Drugs
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
explained the difference between a salted bomb and a dirty bomb
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#id--Nukes_In_Space
Comments
Thanks! (Didn't mean to rush you, but good to know that I didn't in fact plunge off said cliff.)
Alistair Young
2015-11-17 04:39:19 +0000 UTCAlistair, I have parts 5 and 7 up now
Nyrath
2015-11-14 19:44:59 +0000 UTCYes indeed, the gravity gradiometer puts a major crimp to stealth in space. It was used this way in Jack Williamson's The Cometeers. The evil Cometae ship was invisible, but the gravity detector revealed its presence. I also mention the problems with Star Trek using the transporter as an easy out here: <a href="http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/respectscience.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/respectscience.php</a>#id--Unintended_Consequences
Nyrath
2015-11-14 14:57:43 +0000 UTCOh, I plan to add the other parts, it's just that things got chaotic and some stuff fell through the cracks. I'll get them up ASAP
Nyrath
2015-11-14 14:55:33 +0000 UTCAll very shiny, as ever! I have a minor unrelated-to-this-update question for my own curiosity - I'd noticed that while parts 1-4 of my "Building the Imperial Navy" are quoted under "Astromilitary" (of which I am duly appreciative), parts 5 & 6 aren't. Which, well, I'm not trying to say that they _should_ have been, you understand, that's none of my business, but I did just want to check that the reason wasn't that I'd plunged off some great quality cliff while writing those parts and needed to go back and fix 'em, or some such...? (October was quite a chaotic month around here, so my self-assessment of such things is not all it might be.)
Alistair Young
2015-11-14 06:07:36 +0000 UTCI would have to say that Dr. Forward's Gravity Gradiometer is the nail in the coffin for realistic "Stealth in Space". Sure, you might find a way to hide your waste heat, make your ship invisible across most of the spectrum, but unless you can generate real negative mass, you can't hide the mass of your ship. Imagine missiles with GG sensor heads: They are programmed to head towards masses that aren't visible, i.e. cloaked ships. The second you use your antimissile systems, boom, you've made yourself visible. The other thing I like is that you raised all my objections to Star Trek's Transporter. Thanks! Don't forget that the writers had it break down more than once to keep it from saving the crew's bacon.
John
2015-11-14 04:39:49 +0000 UTC
