serenity model

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KAYLEERULESALL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:04 AM

ive been keeping a running flowchart as weve been doing this; its all here in my nerd notebook, recorded for posterity.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

LORA

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:42 AM

Ya'll are just great!

Kayleerulesall, I am proud to be in Texas with another Browncoat like you. If you hit the lottery and start this project (house in suburbia, flying brick, either way), please let me know. I fell into an opportunity to work at Bigelow Aerospace as a systems engineer (check out bigelowaerospace.com) and we're trying to start the private space station business -- make it possible for Mr. Niska to have his skyplex.

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

KAYLEERULESALL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 4:15 AM

oooh, shiny!! will definately get u involved; if theres any way in hell i could like ever afford it.

BTW, where in Texas are you?

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

CITIZEN

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:25 AM

Wow, cooporate space stations, brilliant idea!
Although would that mean they would be unrestricted by any local laws for any experiments they do in space ?

Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.

CITIZEN

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by GunRunner:
There probably are lots of things like exhaust vents that have the minimum of shielding. Also its possible that the Mag Field prevents the plasma from touching the metal casing but there still would be lots of heat in the area that needs to be radiated.

By the time the exhaust is expelled it probably is a lot cooler than when the plasma enters the reaction chamber.
But your right there probably is a lot of heat from IR radiation.

A thought has occured though. The engine assembly spins faster when Serenity goes for a hard burn, is that an indication that it is generating a stronger rotating magnetic field in order to contain the exploisive reaction, and accelerate the reaction mass out the back?

Also the cowling on serenitys drive section opens out, could this be extra radiation shielding for the habitable zones of the ship for when radioactive drive reaction mass is being expelled?

Also do I see an Unofficial FireFly owners/technical manual in the making? That would be kind of interesting...

Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.

CITIZEN

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:34 PM

Completly unrelated to the discussion really, but may be of some interest. It seems that a lab has actually managed to do cold fusion for real this time:

Quote:
Unlike some previous claims of room-temperature fusion, this one makes intuitive sense: its just another way to get atoms close enough together for the strong force to take over and do the rest. Once the reaction got going, the scientists observed not only the production of helium nuclei, but other tell-tale signs of fusion such as free neutrons and high energy radiation.
This experiment has been repeated successfully and other scientists have reviewed the results: it looks like the real thing this time.

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0606/p25s01-stss.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7654627/
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7315

Don't know if anyone here had heard of it before, but I hadn't so.

Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.

KAYLEERULESALL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:26 PM

Shiny. i wonder what the power output is.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

KAYLEERULESALL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
Also do I see an Unofficial FireFly owners/technical manual in the making? That would be kind of interesting...
B]

That would be the Shiniest of shiny things. should we gear up the fan pressure?
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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

CITIZEN

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:10 PM

Possibly, I was thinking doing something on-line by the fans sort of thing...
Work out the tech much like we've done here?

Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.

KAYLEERULESALL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:14 PM

ooh, even shinier. Im game. alltho we would need a better medium in which to hash things out.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

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