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Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:28:00 -
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My kid came over and asked me what makes eve space ships turn, and i had to make up some random stuff about stuff he cant see on the screen. Anyone have a good answer to this? |
Jim Era
HARD KNOCKS CORP
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:28:00 -
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Jesus descends from Heaven and pushes your ship in whichever direction you want it to go. Then angels from God's holy kingdom take off at the speed of your current ship and guide you on your destination.
But suddenly you came upon a gate camp, this is when Jesus ejected and used his pod as a target so that you could safely get by. Unfortunately, Jesus forgot to upgrade his clone properly and lost most of his SP when he was killed which is why it has taken him so long to come back, hes still training. |
Samej Desviado
Longhorn Exploration
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:29:00 -
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Space rudders. |
Doctor ForumAlt
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:30:00 -
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The ship never turns.
The warp drive rotates space around your ship.
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Kurfin
Viziam Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:30:00 -
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Special eve physics. |
Riot Girl
Riot Club
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:30:00 -
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They have engines. |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:31:00 -
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Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes. FuzzWork Enterprises http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ Blueprint calculator, invention chance calculator, isk/m3 Ore chart-á and other 'useful' utilities. |
Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:32:00 -
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Doctor ForumAlt wrote:The ship never turns.
The warp drive rotates space around your ship.
Interesting thougth, although this means that your warpdrive is actually constantly active. |
Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:34:00 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes.
How does gyroscopes work in a vaccum? |
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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:36:00 -
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Impulse thrusters! Their output is invisible though. ISD Dorrim Barstorlode Lieutenant Community Communication Liasions (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department |
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ctx2007
Wychwood and Wells Beer needs you
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:37:00 -
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Space is a vacumn, so you have to stick your arse out of a porthole and fart (break wind, let rip etc)causing a jet of hot gas to slowly turning the the ship. The larger the ship the bigger the fart needed ( don't try to hard you might poop yourself) |
Othran
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:39:00 -
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Mr Steinberg wrote:My kid came over and asked me what makes eve space ships turn, and i had to make up some random stuff about stuff he cant see on the screen. Anyone have a good answer to this?
Engines. Big engines. |
Paul Oliver
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:39:00 -
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Honestly I dunno, I always just played this and it just happens. "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigues of supporting it." - Thomas Paine |
baltec1
Bat Country
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:41:00 -
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Samej Desviado wrote:Space rudders.
Space is a liquid. |
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:42:00 -
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"Don't worry about it, its a game" |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:43:00 -
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Mr Steinberg wrote:Steve Ronuken wrote:Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes. How does gyroscopes work in a vaccum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control_%28spacecraft%29#Control_moment_gyros
Nothing to do with friction. Everything to do with the conservation of angular momentum (I think) FuzzWork Enterprises http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ Blueprint calculator, invention chance calculator, isk/m3 Ore chart-á and other 'useful' utilities. |
Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:43:00 -
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Paul Oliver wrote:Honestly I dunno, I always just played this and it just happens.
hehe
I've pictured large flaps on the end of the engine output, not sure if that would work lol |
MadMuppet
Universal Freelance CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:44:00 -
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I just give the order, "Bring it around, hard to port, two two zero with hard rudder amidships!"
The game asks me what I mean.
I then yell, "MAKE A LEFT! MAKE A LEFT!" If I tried to make a type of coffee that made all of you happy, and you rated it, the group score for it would be about 60 out of 100. Break into 3 or 4 coffee clusters, and made coffee just for each cluster, the scores would go from 60 to 78. The difference between coffee at 60 and coffee at 78 is a difference between coffee that makes you wince or makes you happy. |
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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:44:00 -
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Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:"Don't worry about it, its a game" would have likely been better than filling your kids head with BS.
If you're wondering how he eats & breathes, And other science facts...(la! la! la!) Then repeat to yourself its just a show, I should really just relax...
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode Lieutenant Community Communication Liasions (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department |
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Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:46:00 -
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Actually this makes a bit sense. Reminds me of a old psx game i played, but can't remember the name of.
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Mr Steinberg
Beta Grid
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:47:00 -
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Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:"Don't worry about it, its a game" would have likely been better than filling your kids head with BS.
lol |
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ISD TYPE40
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:51:00 -
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As was pointed out elsewhere on the forums, the physics in EVE are based on a super-fluid, rather than a vacuum.
Super-fluids can be affected by electromagnetic forces in a manner that causes it to become resistive. Our ships drives systems would be constantly emitting such electromagnetic waves, and by tuning those waves, or emitting them in specific directions, we would gain "traction" on the surrounding space thus allowing the ships to turn.
ISD Type40 Lieutenant Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department |
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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs
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Posted - 2012.09.11 17:59:00 -
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Mr Steinberg wrote:My kid came over and asked me what makes eve space ships turn, and i had to make up some random stuff about stuff he cant see on the screen. Anyone have a good answer to this? Change the direction of the thrust vector.
Easiest to do on Caldari ships. |
Nicholas Barker
Reikoku The Retirement Club
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:03:00 -
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Mr Steinberg wrote:Doctor ForumAlt wrote:The ship never turns.
The warp drive rotates space around your ship.
Interesting thougth, although this means that your warpdrive is actually constantly active.
Well a popular excuse for why we have under water physics is because the warpcore is always on and is attached to some sub space whatever and causes you to have a kind of friction, which is why we don't casually fly around at 35kms and need to keep our engines going all the time to go a constant speed. |
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ISD TYPE40
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:05:00 -
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Nicholas Barker wrote:Mr Steinberg wrote:Doctor ForumAlt wrote:The ship never turns.
The warp drive rotates space around your ship.
Interesting thougth, although this means that your warpdrive is actually constantly active. Well a popular excuse for why we have under water physics is because the warpcore is always on and is attached to some sub space whatever and causes you to have a kind of friction, which is why we don't casually fly around at 35kms and need to keep our engines going all the time to go a constant speed.
As per my previous post, see this wiki page for more details. Note the reference to fluid dynamics.
EVElopedia entry on Acceleration.
Lovingly maintained by my brothers and sisters in YARR. ISD Type40 Lieutenant Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department |
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Tycho Antus
Reclamation Technologies
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:10:00 -
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The same type of question could be raised for engines: in space, a ship need to turn on its engines to reach the good speed. Then, without any gravity the ship's speed is constant. Except for some corrections, the ship don't need to use its engine all the time. See the movie Apollo XIII, they used the engines only to give an impulsion between the Moon and the Earth. All the time the engine is off.
So logically, in Eve, our ship's engine must be turn on/off a lot. It is always the same problem is all sci/fi movies/video games. I think the Battlestar Galactica is near to the real space physics. Tycho Antus Former Captain in the Federation Navy Chief Operations Officer of Reclamation Technologies |
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management Unified Church of the Unobligated
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:11:00 -
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It's all about touching balls. Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims. |
derivativo
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:12:00 -
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Real spaceships use gas ejectors at their fuselage to be propelled in the opposing direction: if they want to go left, they use the gas ejector at its right side. This happens because of the linear momentum conservation principle, but I guess the differential equatios are harder to explain than just saying the ship blows some air to move around.
Mr Steinberg wrote:Steve Ronuken wrote:Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes. How does gyroscopes work in a vaccum?
They don't need an atmosphere to work. |
ctx2007
Wychwood and Wells Beer needs you
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:35:00 -
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derivativo wrote:Real spaceships use gas ejectors at their fuselage to be propelled in the opposing direction: if they want to go left, they use the gas ejector at its right side. This happens because of the linear momentum conservation principle, but I guess the differential equatios are harder to explain than just saying the ship blows some air to move around. Mr Steinberg wrote:Steve Ronuken wrote:Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes. How does gyroscopes work in a vaccum? They don't need an atmosphere to work.
Yes like i said earlier....... Gas ejectors (same as farting out of a port hole) |
MadMuppet
Universal Freelance CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
552
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:39:00 -
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Mr Steinberg wrote:Steve Ronuken wrote:Gyroscopes. Big gyroscopes. How does gyroscopes work in a vaccum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_moment_gyroscope
If I tried to make a type of coffee that made all of you happy, and you rated it, the group score for it would be about 60 out of 100. Break into 3 or 4 coffee clusters, and made coffee just for each cluster, the scores would go from 60 to 78. The difference between coffee at 60 and coffee at 78 is a difference between coffee that makes you wince or makes you happy. |
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