timpsi
Trainee
I wanna fly to The Sun
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Post by timpsi on Dec 2, 2007 7:43:08 GMT -5
Oh, well that might explain why they came so fast through the atmosphere. 14.340.178 km/h is pretty fast, hahaha. Imagne Icarus crossing over your head in the city where you live at that speed =D Would be pretty fun to compare the speed of Icarus to the reality. For example, show how fast a aircraft flyes, and beside it Icarus II =D
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Post by infectusguy on Dec 17, 2007 5:06:17 GMT -5
You would have though having consulted NASA it would be some kind of ceramic material, but the fact that it has a reflective finish and they stuck things to it magnetically suggests otherwise. Being a maintenance engineer i'm always critical of how well things are designed with fixing things is concerned. The first thing i thought though was that with the shields angled it totally exposed the hydraulic system, it doesn't take much heat at all to boil hydraulic oil and render the system useless. If i were designing the Icarus i would have used something a little more robust than a fragile hydraulic system, which is probably why it went wrong in the film! Think of it like the wax that held Icarus's feathers to his wings!  Guy |
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Starshine
Pilot
There will be nothing to show that we were ever here - but stardust.
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Post by Starshine on Dec 19, 2007 13:49:00 GMT -5
Yeah, a more stable system would be better^ By the way, they have a strong magnetic field onboard to protect the spaceship against some kind of particle-radiation. The electromagnetic radiation were reflected by the shield. Anyway, do you know maybe why the shield rotates? I think it is for heat balancing when some parts of the shield gets more radiation than others. This happens when the trajectory of the spaceship is not exactly targeted on the sun. What do you think?  |
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Post by infectusguy on Dec 19, 2007 17:45:43 GMT -5
Thats a very good point, I didn't realise the whole thing rotated. Also why do the seperate shield sections need to point at the sun?  Maybe it was to do with maintaining some sort of magnetic field or something. Either way i love the design, just a massive heatproof umbrella stuck on the front of a ship!  Guy |
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Post by snath on Jan 19, 2008 2:12:14 GMT -5
It is 50 years in the future,
Perhaps they created some weird biological film that converts heat energy into some chemical reaction that cools... Or somehow diverts heat and radiation away from it. Maybe they took parts off of the UFO from area 51 and mass produced it...
What bugs me is the fact there is gravity in the observation room where the trip out on the sun. Isn't that in the center of the ship? Hello? 0 G?
Its ok, It is a timless tradition in Sci Fi to ignore the rules of gravity.
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Post by inufreak on May 7, 2008 1:26:10 GMT -5
Thought you guys might find this interesting. There is actually a material called Tantalum Hafnium Carbide that has a higher melting point than Tungsten and Carbon. With a melting point of 4488 K (4215 °C, 7619 °F) you could certainly get closer with this material than probably any other we have right now. As mentioned previously, you wouldn't need the shield to last in these temperatures for very long, as the only party of the ship that was SUPPOSED to continue this far in would have been the bomb. I speculate that the Icarus would have used this material or one very similar on the shield and then used a radiator type system underneath/behind it that would have used one of the base elements in a liquid state (very very cold) to take heat away from the shield and used it to perhaps heat the ship, provide electricity (through steam turbines), or had a crazy design for then removing a heat from the liquid that I can't think of haha  . Of course, this is just my idea/guess. (the real thing we should have been wondering is how did the fifth crew member live so long without skin lol) |
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