Moderation note: the first 3 posts of this thread were moved from the “spaceship design” poll thread, because that thread was overdue to be closed.
Why create a space craft fly through space? the fact is Gene Rodenbury, I think was very close to the fact on space travel.
I am not able to afford any of my ideas persay, but here is my idea in a nutshell:
space flight using any modern form of engine is useless, because it uses a vast amount of fuel, which costs weight space for storage and limits the engines speed as well as distance.
lets think outside of a box, way out side of a box. lets think of pulling a ship along, using a pulling field, it would only increase speed to match the field that is pulling the ship.
seeing the field is created by the ship, it only makes sense that the ship moves forward, the field moves forward with the ship at the set speed and then amplifies on a compound factor.
basically this will only limit the compounding speed to the limits of the subproccessors of the computer framework utilizing the shipboard functions. at my present guesses I am estimating just shy of the speed of light with a dual core 3 gig processor. mind you this is also under the limits of the wiring, in our example it would have to be a fiber optic system and even then it may run a little slow causing a cascade effect which could knock the engines (field) offline and a full reset of the systems (to say the least).
if a "cascade" effect comes about this is lethal to say the least for a ship such as this because without the "warp bubble" pulling this ship along. the ship would be open for even so much as a grain of dust to litterally flow through the ship like a bullet through a piece of paper.
the "bubble" effect is actually a warp field cause by the pulling field created by this controlled energy burst. the bubble would act as shields as long as the system is funtional.
the "bubble" could be produced forward of the ship, behind the ship, left, right, etc. the limits of directions are only where the energy emitters could be stationed.
the bubble would also increase in comparrison by speed, to the point it would act as a deflector shield. at one point it theoretically could be used as a defensive shield....may even deflect as much as a direct nuclear hit.....of course that would depend on speed. field intensity, angle, projection of shields, and rift.
now keep in mind that a "warp bubble" also would by theory, create a form of gravity, I am not sure how much nor if it can be controlled, afterall this is in a theory form, no one could afford this type of project at this point of time anyhow.
the biggest point to this field engine is this....the ship doesn't need any particular shape. In theory, it could look like a disc, to help with the gravity control. it could be the shape of a cigar, or a Ball, such as in WWII - foo fighters. Which is a legend, but I believe they were more than that by far.
In fact, the ship would need the engines to slow down, or stop. the field emitters, set off in a full force, directional pulse, could even act as a defensive weapon especially if it is set at a pin point location with full force, figure a "Punch" flying at an object at or near the speed of light....I would imagine it would be quit deadly.
can you imagine flying to Pluto in less than ten minutes? Can you imagine thrust would not be needed to leave a planets gravity? this ship could be almost any size with this type of engine.
Directional thrusters? not even reasonable due to fuel consumption vs weight x gravity / burst length.
a pulling engine is set up as a "conductive" system, it would conduct energy that sub support systems would be able to "recharge" off of, or supply direct power too, no a/c all D/C power....and we all know d/c power is also more compatible with heat, cold, water/moisture, etc. this ship would stand a strong chance of "water" moisture build up within the heated -vs.- non heated locations on board the ship.
I have not figured out the oxygen issues as of yet, nor food supportive systems, but with this type of power supply....who knows what could happen.
Really the term "bubble" is not even a true example. the best example of this "Pulling" system would be like putting to magnets together they would repel each other. now picture at the same time, the "magnets" would push anything out of their way as they move forward, hence "a deflector shield".
The interesting point to this is that most of the technologies are available now, some are under testing for different uses (hence - limited imaginations) some are not mentioned on the internet, some have been in use since 1980's by believe it or not GM up in Michigan. their tech center has a interesting conponent needed to make this work.
as for the engines per-say? that would need some imagination, a good team of people who could do some piecing together of different designs with their own processors and programs, work them into a main control system and a main control unit. These systems would have to work together in a long series to make the entire "drive" to work as one giant "propulsion" system.
Can this be done anytime soon? yes! how long before the full plans of how to piece it all together? within a few years (if that-depending on access to research data and plans), a full diagnostic diagram (blueprints) can be made, then it is simply up to whoever is assigned to build this system and ship to build it.
I honestly feel within 15 years we could be looking at the first long range space craft could be built.
that would only limit our range to food and air systems. I have no knowledge on how to make that part work for long range travel.
Do I have some Idea how to make what I have described? yes, to a point! truthfully, this type of work can only be done with government support, and government capability of producing access to the information needed.
I hope this is the kind of thing this site is looking for.
