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Subbing Daedalus

Post 1

Gnomon - time to move on

Hi Ictoan. I'm subbing your "Project Daedalus" entry at A50670182.

I'm a bit mystified by the "Artificial Cloud". Can you tell me more about it?


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Post 2

IctoanAWEWawi

Hi Gnomon,

The artificial cloud, yes, not terribly well defined or thought out.
Remember all this is theoretical.

Basically they were aware of the issues of dust other stuff in space that they would have to protect the craft against. Whilst travelling through the interstellar medium the berrylium shield should suffic to stop any particals. But once the craft reaches a stellar system the stuff it might encounter will be bigger. And remember it is travelling at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light.

So the idea is to maintain a cloud of dust some distance from the front of the craft. This cloud of dust would cause anything hitting it to vapourise (or atleast explode and reduce to much smaller particles) which would then burn out before hitting the craft. The distance is so that any fireball has time to extinguish and break down.
The dust itself would be replenoshed by the dust bug craft which themselves would be highly likely to be hit by something so were also replaceable.

I can find no reference as to how the proposed to keep a cloud of dust 200km in front of the craft at 12% of light speed - but then the design does have flaws and gaps in it.

that help?


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Post 3

IctoanAWEWawi

Hi Gnomon, good job on subbing daedalus.
Are you able to pick up the suggestions I made at the start of PR with regard to repointing other entires to this one as part of your curator role? Or should I bung a request into EF?



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Post 4

Gnomon - time to move on

I can do it, but I might forget. If you put it into Editorial Feedback, somebody will definitely do it. Try and provide as much information as possible on what you want done.


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Post 5

IctoanAWEWawi

ok, will do, ta!


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Post 6

Gnomon - time to move on

I've just added those links as you requested. I also added a link in Daedalus to Valkyrie - I made it an isolated link in the right margin, not attached to the text.


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Post 7

Gnomon - time to move on

smiley - simpost


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Post 8

IctoanAWEWawi

smiley - biggrin cool, I shan't do that then!


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