I hope everyone's gearing up for a great weekend!
I haven't given up...totally on my near future FF&S project, though I will
say that it's becoming less and less FF&S with a few bits added in and more
and more "Atomic Rocket guidelines with FF&S filling in missing
information" (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php)
So that brings me to the question: Are FF&S computer's still 'realistic?'
I put together a jump test probe and it's basically the smallest jump drive
possible, 20 cubic meters of hydrogen to power two jump-1 hops and three
fiberoptic computers, those come to 36 cubic meters, about a third of the
total volume of the probe.
Based on everything else that I've read that seems so out of proportion as
to be laughable. So I figure that there has to be more to what the
"computers" are rather than just the processing.
Do the computer sizes need to be adjusted?
To the fellow that suggested GURPS Space, there's a heck of a lot of merit
to that system for roughing out a basic idea and unless you're going to be
going through and calculating the delta V of every little part of your
logistics chain, it's more than good enough and the results aren't "wrong"
they're just not precise. Which once you get into the better drives isn't a
problem, but interplanetary gas guzzlers like nuclear thermal rockets need
something a bit more specific.
--
Stephen Rider
I haven't given up...totally on my near future FF&S project, though I will
say that it's becoming less and less FF&S with a few bits added in and more
and more "Atomic Rocket guidelines with FF&S filling in missing
information" (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php)
So that brings me to the question: Are FF&S computer's still 'realistic?'
I put together a jump test probe and it's basically the smallest jump drive
possible, 20 cubic meters of hydrogen to power two jump-1 hops and three
fiberoptic computers, those come to 36 cubic meters, about a third of the
total volume of the probe.
Based on everything else that I've read that seems so out of proportion as
to be laughable. So I figure that there has to be more to what the
"computers" are rather than just the processing.
Do the computer sizes need to be adjusted?
To the fellow that suggested GURPS Space, there's a heck of a lot of merit
to that system for roughing out a basic idea and unless you're going to be
going through and calculating the delta V of every little part of your
logistics chain, it's more than good enough and the results aren't "wrong"
they're just not precise. Which once you get into the better drives isn't a
problem, but interplanetary gas guzzlers like nuclear thermal rockets need
something a bit more specific.
--
Stephen Rider