Questions tagged [spaceships]
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Constraints on distributing power to spaceship systems
The problem of power management in a sci-fi spaceship for the purpose of powering various ship systems is commonly represented in TV shows like Star Trek and video games. Recently, I noticed an ...
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How rare is ancient debris?
A Star Wars-like civilization once dominated this sector of galaxy, having serious cargo fleets running to and fro, and military fleet capable of deflecting a galaxy-size threat. They did have enemies,...
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Detecting interstellar alien stations?
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We have an alien civilization that is very advanced and highly afraid of detection who decided to colonize outer space with stations. The following elements are taken into consideration for ...
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Force Feild made of unobtainium
A lot of force fields are made out of "energy" or some electromagnetic field.
What I'm suggesting is a little different. It all revolves around the wonderful properties of unobtanium. It is ...
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How long could a realistic timeline be to fly to another galaxy in a spaceship? [closed]
I am writing a story where the character is sent to another galaxy in a spaceship to explore, How fast should the ship be travelling? How long would it take to get there? I'm wondering whether I need ...
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Can we track each Alcubierre drive by the Hawking radiation emitted?
I am writing a story about a dogfight between multiple warp capable spaceships, in one particular scene I like to have the adversary to make an epic announcement/entrance via hawking radiation like ...
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Crash landing as a cost effective landing method for raw materials
Crash landing is bad. But what if the payload isn't fragile stuff like humans and machinery, but instead raw resources like Steel, Iron, or even Plastic? Would any of those survive a crash landing ...
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Realistically, would it be possible to detonate nuclear weapons in space to power spaceships?
For my sci-fi project, I was thinking about faster ways of travel and I was wondering if nuclear energy could be used to power them and whether o not it would affect and celestial objects, bodies, etc....
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Emergency measures to protect a spaceship's crew from a crash landing
The spacecraft in question would be capable of landing/taking off from a planet's surface and of FTL travel, but would range in size from between the Millenium Falcon or the Starbug from Red Dwarf. I ...
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How would you "stun" a spaceship (i.e. incapacitate it nonlethally)?
In a plausible interplanetary setting, what weapons or defensive measures might a spaceship use to deter or incapacitate an attacking ship without destroying it or killing its crew?
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Teleportation network concept [closed]
I am thinking about the teleportation type where an object gets disassembled in one place and perfectly reconstructed some where else (almost instantaneously).
This approach is not totally great, ...
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Optimal design for large space-based radiators
I like hard sci-fi, but one thing that's almost always missing in hard sci-fi depictions of space ships are the radiators.
I have a vague idea to fix this by making some renderings of spaceships with ...
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The power plant of the ark ship in the form of a black hole
I would like to warn you right away that I’m new here and not very proficient in English, so there may be some mistakes in my question.
I am developing a science fiction book where I want to move away ...
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How might fog rapidly be created during space warfare?
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In my setting, ships have deflecting shields that are essentially fields of sonic frequencies. Sounds are used to penetrate these shields - a mosquito tone on an assassin, or broadside thunder ...
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How long would world governments be able to cover up alien spacecraft during the cold war? [closed]
The time is December 1962, just a few months after the Cuban Missile Crisis put mankind on the edge of the Great Filter. America and the Soviet Union notice something strange from their telescopes and ...
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