Spacescifi

For every pro there is con though. Titanium may be strong, but I am not sure it can bend as well as bone can (bending rather than breaking is really important). The scissor jack is heavier than your arm and relies on hydralics rather than muscle. Indeed, there are plenty of ways to get extra strength without muscle, but that in nature is found in exoskeketal gears that planthoppers discard after wearing them out, growing new ones to use fore more hopping. https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2013/9/130912-planthopper-gear-wheel-insect-legs-science

Wow. So super strength without the extra weight to support it is illlogical. Not plausible. It's like putting a a tiny missile up in orbit with a closed cycle NTR engine minus the radiators. Then running it to the max. It will go, but not for long before the core melts and you have a glowing orbital satellite. Thanks for killing the fantasies of superheroes and superhuman humanoids.... using science.

So a different biochemistry then... what that is I have no clue, but for what it's worth, they are humanoid and as written... differently colored, as blood is purple among other things. Guess that would explain it.

Well... that would be preferable to extra months of pregnancy at least! Not related, but I read somewhere that anytime the body does something faster than the usual it heats up. Which makes sense, after all we heat up when we run and thus sweat. So the catch? Anytime you see characters in movies who regenerate wounds in seconds should be sweating beads of sweat. They should be soaked like you dumped a bucket on them. Same goes for superhuman feats, only more so. In addition the body would want extra oxygen for these superhuman feats, likely more than our atmosphere provides naturally. I do not favor changing the atmosphere as that causes more problems than it solves. I am not opposed to providing an auxiallary pair of organs though that stored high concentrations of oxygen that could be used when super strength/healing was required. Perhaps a pair of skin wings like elephant ears, not to fly but merely a place the body stores excess oxygen for superhuman strength. When the excess oxygen ran out they would need to ressuply it again or go without the superpower fir a while. Perhaps they have foods with liquid oxygen in it and they can eat thay stuff? EDIT: Cannot drink liquid oxygen... it freezes organic tissue. I guess the only way to make it work would be to dip the wings in natural liquid oxygen sources (dangerouns alien flora with copious amounts of liquid oxygen?). Dip them at the ends and the rest of the,wing can still move and swing about as needed. Once oxygen is depleted, the wing ends would thaw out again.

I see, but there must be a price to be paid I imagine. If nothing else, much longer pregnancies due to having children who are superhumanly strong with super strong tendons and ligaments. The only thing that would make it worth it is a fast regeneration rate, as anytime humans pull superhuman strength stunts they come off injured. To not come off injured would require superhuman healing. Perhaps they sleep longer too?

Seen in scifi and superhero films many times, here we can discuss it's plausibility or lack thereof. I dunno how close or far I am to correct on this subject, but I do think it to be related to the limitations of rocketry. 1. Want more thrust? Burn more fuel per second (convert more food into energy). 2. Not sure if there is any correlation to burning fuel at hotter temperatures to use it longer as it relates to strength (unless you're trading strength for endurance). Yet perhaps there is! If a scifi humanoid's body could run hotter before overheating maybe they could do superhuman feats without gorging massive amounts of food. Although their clothing may catch fire though... so there is that downside. And they will likely be glowing too, long before they actually start vaping away to cool down. Which would do little good. They would be better off taking a swim to cool off. 3. Higher Gravity World: This has been used in scifi before, notably the Orville, yet it has diminishing returns the longer a person stays away from the high g homeworld. Conclusion: Discuss. But what I really want to know is, how can a humanoid of normal weight be much stronger (superhuman) than a normal human? Since muscle has weight to it, so the common and easiest way would be for the superhuman to be much more heavy than your average human, which would kind of negate much of his strength anyway unless his homeworld was like 7g or something. Discuss.

The point is in my name. Space science fiction. I am really asking could a scifi spaceship refuel coming to Earth, processing cow patties (poop) for liquid methane? Would it be worth it? Or are other liquid fuels easier to process on Earth? I know the limits of modern technoigy, so this is allowing for FTL/warp and a means to neutralize gravity's pull so that rocketry to space SSTO scifi spaceships are suddenly viable. Only on an Earth clone alien planet there are legitimate reasons for keeping your outer hull closed. Wild animals? Natives? That kind of thing.

Point taken..

Are you saying you go to my threads specifically to argue your POV with others? Well... that is what you have been doing, although you do not always find those who are willing to argue back. But when you do, it can and does derail threads.

In my scifi I do not really need a space battleship. I am far more interested in space freighters that have the option of shipping passengers too. Coincidentally, the difference between a space freighter and a space battleship can be quite slim anyway depending on what it's payload is.

Consider, what else hace you really to talk about? The neverending number wars? Shower thoughts? SpaceX. Guessing what Russia's space program is up to? Besides my threads, that is really all you've got here to play with on the regular.

Really after reconsideration, I still favor blocky outer hulls, but where the crew actually live inside would instead be hard sausage shaped modules (cylinders with blunt ends). Which will prevent any pressure on the outer hull, since outside the crew module, everywhere else inside the ship would be vacuum. Until they landed on an earth-like world and it was pressurized for breathing.

Which more or less derailed the entire objective of this thread.

For now, why not just let him/her go? He really is no where near as dangerous as these two guys, both infamous internet trolls. Who know each other and apparently get along more or less. Back to topic, what if the spaceship wanted to refuel with liquid methane instead of liquid hydrogen on a medievel tech world? I did some research and found that swampy areas and wetlands tend to have concentrated amounts of methane because of decaying vegetation. Also, I do think it quite funny for scifi alens to show up in a story here and get out and start shoveling cow patties. Refueling is now a stinky job.

I read somewhere online that water is effected by space radiation, and over time will turn acidic or something and cease to offer the protection it once did. That's assuming if it was just water bags with little to no shielding between the bags and the outer hull. As for hydrogen rich plastics abd everything else.... I am not sure. But I have a suspicion that spaceships in real life, unlike those depicted in fiction, will have expiration/planet space dock repair dates based on radiation hull protection. Likewise any space station would likely need it's hull replaced over time too for the same reasons. Unless one is expected to simply brave cancer rays like astronauts already do. What do you think? Serious replies only.

I think you're joking. If it was not for people who underatand how space travel really works and KSP forums, my scifi would be a near direct clone of Star Trek. Thankfully I know enough to avoid doing stuff the star trek way, which in our universe is either overkill or ignoring the physical limits we currently deal with involving space travel.

I think it's the combo of greasiness that turns you off. The bacon is probably overkill. Without it, I would be willing to try your dad's stuff. Might try it myself... sounds like a tasty burger.... minus the bacon. Gross... but I probably have no figurative legs to stand on. Since I am the same person who has taken bread and dipped it in the meat drippings to eat after all the meat was gone. When I was really hungry and all I had was bones I would eat those too.... marrow and all LOL.

Cables is as cheap/lightweight as you can possibly go. I remember a rotational gravity experiment I read about that occurred in space once. The cable snapped! Now I am not saying that will always happen, but I would rather do 30 launches for orbital assembly with beam connectors for both ends of the ship, instead of 19 with cables that might snap.

What I mean is that it need not be heavy. For what it's worth, you could even put a few metal rafter beams to connect fore and aft and forget about a mid-hull section altogether if you want maximum affordabilty. Then it really would be lighter weight than the rest of the ship. On the other hand, if you want the mid-section to hold cargo (smart place to put cargo by the way), then definitely put it in a hull midsection.

I agree that a torus is better for a station, but for a ship I think a long rocket is better. With current technology it would be more reasonable to do orbital construction of it rather than make it an SSTO (otherwise it will be nearly all fuel tank). The main benefits of a linear tumbling spacecraft spaceship is I think is that it's arguably cheaper than a torus since the mid section need not be as strong as the rest of the ship. Also easier to construct in orbit. The ISS is basically a bunch of long cylinders attached/docked together after all, so it is virtually the same design.

Explaining the reasons behind it makes me more accepting of the paperwork. Thanks.

Haha... so based on this logic, starfleet should have the least amount of ships of any power in the Alpha Quadrant, due to their love of curvy hulls. On the other hand, the Borg should have like.. billions of easy to repair ships. It's a pity star trek never implied this, but they have ignored more basic physics stuff (inertia drifting/newtonian maneuvers) far longer anyway so that is likely asking for too much. I am here to correct that. At least in my scifi the stuff star trek ignores will no longer be. Ad so much more.

Haha... you think I was inspired by imitating scifi tv shows? This entire thread was inspired off what learned from KSP forums. The blocky ship would be flat, with angular side/edge walls to make it somewhat aerodynamic at least. My main motive here is not just ease of building it, but also ease of loading/unloading and extra cargo space. Also the fact that rocket shaped ships kind of look dated in a scifi setting anyway... at least to me As for the bigelow, I have seen designs fitted around a solid core beam down the middle, but inflated everywhere else. There ate many ways to do it withou risking inflatable damage. Who knows? I am actually quite okay with the idea of flexible control/computer panels that you can roll up like a scroll or hook up to an outlet. Just about anything is possible with imagination, and life imitates art and art imitates life. The following illustrates that. As for refueling, it's on an earth-like world because that is a legit setting if you have multiple homeworlds for different civilizations. Commerce is a motive, but if the natives do not have the tech for processing rocket fuel yet, then that falls to the landed SSTO ship to carry it out.

You can post a pic or video and explain. I go first. Conchas taste like dry bread with sugar on top. The only ones that taste like an actual pastry are the pre-packaged ones you get at gas stations. I like those, but Panderias (stores where you buy the dry ones) I tend to stay away from. Empanadas are the only thing I can eat there without feeling sick, but overall they are still much less sweet than you would expect of pocket size pie. What about you? List a pic or vid and explain why you cannot like a food you have tried to like.

Technically it does not have to, but we are dealing with bureacracy here. They won't NOT let you do anything withouy making you swim through paperwork. At the same time, if your sat does nothing, they won't send iy up unless you have a wad of cash for them.