Stealth in space

[Elyannia]

Well my brain just about exploded from trying to read what Aihwa and ISV were talking about XD. It might have something to do with sleep deprivation. lol.

[Woodsprite]

....Seems like no one takes into account how any solid object traveling at the speed of light through space would disintegrate if the object hit so much as a dust particle....

Unless the object vaporized every single tiny, miniscule piece of everything in its path to absolute nothingness, or if the object was traveling through an area without the slightest bit of anything around, light travel would be impossible. That's science for ya.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Aihwa

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Space Is Three Dimensional

Never seen this done wrong. I've seen ships pulling 3D maneuvers in just about every sci-fi ever...

It more means how ships always come horizontally face to face and other solar systems are only ever a few degrees up/down at most.

Rockets Are Not Boats

That's assuming you don't control gravity... Now most Sci-fi series happen so far into the future that gravity has been simulated without moving parts, so...

"Rockets Are Not Fighter Planes"

If you read the novels, they go into great detail on the wonderful maneuvers fighters can preform without atmosphere hampering them, and maneuvers that require atmosphere are absent.

Which doesn't change their being completely implausible at the ranges that would really be involved.

"Rockets Don't Got Windows"
Transparisteel and Transparent aluminum for Star Wars and Star trek respectively. All the structural integrity, plus see through.

"There Ain't No Stealth In Space"

Minimize heat emissions, paint the sucker black. Halo got their prowler vessels stealth-ed. Without additional tech. They're not invisible, they're just hard to see.

For transparent aluminium, would be fine if it existed
For stealth, nothing can have no emissions, especially if it has propulsion and life support.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Human No More

It more means how ships always come horizontally face to face and other solar systems are only ever a few degrees up/down at most.

Rockets Are Not Boats

That's assuming you don't control gravity... Now most Sci-fi series happen so far into the future that gravity has been simulated without moving parts, so...



Which doesn't change their being completely implausible at the ranges that would really be involved.


For transparent aluminium, would be fine if it existed
For stealth, nothing can have no emissions, especially if it has propulsion and life support.

No idea what you're talking about with the fighters thing, elaborate.


It doesent matter if it exists. If it existed, it would be just fiction not sci-fi. It fits within the rules of their universe. They take into account that modern viewports would be impractical, and devise a solution.


Same with stealth. You obviously chose not to read my wall of text. Please do so.

[Human No More]

I was never actually saying transparent aluminium would be impossible.

As for propulsion, unless you had a system like the Normandy's, then any acceleration, deceleration or course change would create easily detectable emissions of heat, particles and radiation at the very least. Since there is no friction in space, a ship tracking could easily maintain a lock on the new projected course.

Also, with sensitive enough thermal sensors, it would be easy to detect any ship with life support from its heat, even with insulation. Another theoretical method of detection is that it would block background radiation, so could be noticed with a directional sensor.