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Sakura II Discussion (formerly A THOUGHT Experiment)

Please people! PAST TENSE! It is the site norm, and in most if not all plots a requirement. Please watch how you write.

It should be:

Rei walked into the shower and tossed her towel onto the bench.

NOT:

Rei walks into the shower, and tosses her towel onto the bench.

Please keep this in mind. It makes reading post to post easier, lest jolting.
 
@Gunsight1

What are your thoughts on me using refrigeration theory as part of a temporary measure with the engines (after the halon)? I want to slowly purge the gas once it has soaked up enough heat so that the decrease in pressure also causes the gas to absorb even more heat (kind of like how the expansion chamber in a fridge works).
 
Oh man gonna have to research some physics for this... Was looking into a gravity slingshot to escape, but we'd need to be going around the planet to pick up the planet's speed. Maybe if we fall at an angle, we can still pick up some speed from falling and some of the planet's rotating speed. If I'm imagining this right, if we were to dive directly into the planet, gain speed, then pull back up again, we'd be back where we started due to conservation of energy.

My physics is pretty rusty though so let me know if I'm missing something crucial or if anyone else has ideas!
 
Half of our goofing around is going to include some suspension of disbelief type space magic. Kind of similar to what I'm working on now to see if the usual jump formulae can be "fixed" with the spacetime distortion data. But yes, taking rotation into account is part of it, IIRC.
 
I think we are working with Star-Trekke physics here most of the time. Just toss enough bull around and make it sound sciency and let GM work it all out. At least that was my assumption most of the time.
 
So, while FH-85 wouldn't know this but the engineers and pilots would and I was kinda wondering... How are we trying to escape the planet's gravity well?
a) O --- Like this? pointing out engines towards the planet and burning, maybe possible on a normal planet with our super powerful engines
b) O | Like this? where we get up enough speed to miss the planet, but continue to fall around it (IE: Achieve orbit). Which normally takes like a millionth of the power of the first method.

Just because it actually matters if our engines can't put out the force required to push us directly away, we can possibly still achieve a stable orbit, and from what's been it sounds a little like we've been trying to push directly away.

KSP makes me happy.
 
We're currently burning straight away from the planet, but wikl be switching to the other way or attempting to land soon
 
I'm hoping B, but Engineers don't necessarily look outside or dictate ship direction. We just keep the engines running and the ship from exploding on its own. The jump calculus modification that I have Shizuka working on though, should be more of a sciences thing.
 
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