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| Game Designer | Re: Space Voyage #1 Chatter Also the despin would result in a loss of simulated gravity, not normally bad except that we have a large open water source which would love to turn into a large "gob" and bounce around.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Space Voyage #1 Chatter Hey, pyrotex, you don't know what I used to do before I was an odd jobs man aboard the prophesy. The first reason I was here may shed some light on my... 'doubtable' past...
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| Doing the Impossible | Re: Space Voyage #1 Chatter Buggers and moon buggy rides! More texture added to the voyage. Awesome guys! Bill
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| Doing the Impossible | Re: Space Voyage #1 Chatter Quote:
I might not make another long entry until Friday night. Busy busy busy. Bill
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| Doing the Impossible | Re: Space Voyage #1 Chatter Just read Pyro's post. I will make some time. Bill
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To change the attitude of a gyroscope – or anything something with significant angular momentum – torque must be applied in a direction perpendicular to the angular momentum vector. Applying it in a parallel direction won’t effect attitude at all. Since gyroscopes translate torque into angular velocity (precisely according to the vector formula As a rocket, producing force is among the things Prophesy is designed to do best. It’s designed mainly to apply that force parallel to the rings’ angular momenta, but I can imagine a fairly simple enhancement to its “thrust management” (shock-absorber) system that would allow the main atomic motor to provide ample attitude-changing thrust: allow it to handle slightly eccentric thrust. Although the most straight-forward approach to this would be a mechanical joint connecting the blast-side parts of the system to be moved independently of the rest of the ship, I suspect that a better solution would be to allow the shock absorber to move along 2 axes rather than 1. This would be particularly easy if the shock absorber is electromagnetic, like the one used in the ”Dropzone” amusement park ride. The pellet-injecting/detonating system need only detonate pellets slightly off-center to effect an attitude change.
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| Ancora Imparo | Re: gyroscope mechanics - attitude change using the main motor I was thinking to avoid going off the rails we should discuss some minor details in the story, it will save time later. So if you unsure what to add to the story, or unsure if its appropriate, just ask here. One thing I wanted to ask was if I could be getting a transmission from Pyro who is on his way to the moon in an escape pod that "malfunctioned" while he was in it and BigDog was coincidently doing a diagnostic on it. That is if you didnt already have an idea for getting Pyro to the moon..
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