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Setekh · **Reply #380 on:** November 21, 2003, 01:32:58 am

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Originally posted by mikhael
Nope. Light reflection is, at the quantum level, an interaction between photons and electrons. No electrons, no photonic reactions.

You beat me to it. If the collapsed-core molybdenum is as you describe it, Ace, it's not going to reflect very much at all.

J3Vr6 · **Reply #381 on:** November 21, 2003, 08:29:51 am

But even the most matte object is going to have a brighter side when a light is shone off of it, compared to it's other sides that are not illunminated by a light. So shiny or not, mirror-like or dirt like, an object is going to show some sort of difference when light is on it than when there isn't one.

Lightspeed · **Reply #382 on:** November 21, 2003, 11:11:12 am

If it would be realistic, most normal objects in space would only have a black side, and a white side (solid white, solid black), but if FS2 armour is really made of that 'collapsed-core molybdenum' you describe there, you have a highly explosive and reactive material for your armour. I would not like to sit in anything made of this

StratComm · **Reply #383 on:** November 21, 2003, 12:08:38 pm

Actually, if it was as Ace described, and all you had was a bunch of degenerate matter, you would have either an invisible hull that showed through to whatever was inside since there would be nothing to absorb (and thus prevent penetration) by photons. Unless the hull was so dense that photons simply bounced back or are somehow dissipated, in which case you'd either have a true mirror or a completely unlit surface even in direct sunlight. It's sort of hard to picture the quantum interaction when effectively no electrons are present.

mikhael · **Reply #384 on:** November 21, 2003, 02:20:05 pm

I would expect death black, StratComm, not transparent.

StratComm · **Reply #385 on:** November 21, 2003, 03:15:06 pm

I know, I'm just looking at it from a strictly quantum level. At any rate, it's wouldn't be true matte either I don't think. Hard to say exactly, though I'd imagine the effectiveness of the compacting procedure would have some bearing on that.

mikhael · **Reply #386 on:** November 21, 2003, 04:24:07 pm

Of course its 'true matter'. The neutronium of neutron stars is true matter, so this would be true matter as well. You could call it degenerate matter I guess, but I would think that would be a misnomer, really.

Lightspeed · **Reply #387 on:** November 21, 2003, 04:30:57 pm

whatever it is, it would not be very stable, and the pilot would be dead in a matter of seconds

Neutron Stars are very unstable things - they have an immense density and lots neutrons explode out of them at very high velocity - this will create VERY, VERY strong radiation.

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and lol, the ships would attract planets... ROFL

Drew · **Reply #388 on:** November 21, 2003, 06:32:04 pm

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Originally posted by mikhael
I would expect death black, StratComm, not transparent.

*cough* "they had those death black ships" *cough*

mikhael · **Reply #389 on:** November 22, 2003, 12:22:33 am

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Originally posted by Lightspeed
whatever it is, it would not be very stable, and the pilot would be dead in a matter of seconds

Neutron Stars are very unstable things - they have an immense density and lots neutrons explode out of them at very high velocity - this will create VERY, VERY strong radiation.

-edit-

and lol, the ships would attract planets... ROFL

Unstable, absolutely. Attract planets? no. We're not talking about neutronium here. If we were, the pilots would be crushed to death and the Orion would fold in on itself when a fighter docked. By collapsed core, I suspect they just mean a bunch of molybdenum nuclei forced into artificial proximity, stripped of their electron shells. That would make it awfully reactive (ablative perhaps?) but certainly not ultra massy like neutronium.

Drew, I chose my words carefully.

StratComm · **Reply #390 on:** November 22, 2003, 12:38:15 am

Lol, I missed a word or two in my last post. What I meant to say was that any matter without its electrons would not react to light like "normal matter" with its electrons. I don't know how it would act, but it seems that without the electron shell light would simply not interact with the matter. If it is dense enough, then I don't know what would happen; if it is only marginally denser than uncompressed matter then light would pass through it unimpeded. However, it lets us have justifiable "death black" ships, ah-la FS1-intro shivans.

Lightspeed · **Reply #391 on:** November 22, 2003, 05:01:55 am

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Originally posted by mikhael

Unstable, absolutely. Attract planets? no. We're not talking about neutronium here. If we were, the pilots would be crushed to death and the Orion would fold in on itself when a fighter docked. By collapsed core, I suspect they just mean a bunch of molybdenum nuclei forced into artificial proximity, stripped of their electron shells. That would make it awfully reactive (ablative perhaps?) but certainly not ultra massy like neutronium.

where do they get the power from to force them to artificial proximity, let alone stripping them of their electron shells? If is not neutronium you'd need to keep it 'stable' on its current state (since if you create an artifical proximity with charged matter (you still have protons, but the electrons are gone) it will not be very durable since they push away each other, unless you have neutronium where the mass is so big that they are held together by mass) that you would need your own sun mounted on the fighter, and even that might not be enough.

Lightspeed · **Reply #392 on:** November 22, 2003, 06:14:29 am

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note: you need other shinemap sets in order to have every map used by the Argo

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I've got the whole day free, so expect to see more soon

Setekh · **Reply #393 on:** November 22, 2003, 06:40:24 am

Huzzah.

Another update on how many you've got left?

Lightspeed · **Reply #394 on:** November 22, 2003, 11:01:17 am

look at the first post in this thread

Lightspeed · **Reply #395 on:** November 22, 2003, 11:45:15 am

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includes an updated version of one shinemap also used by the Colossus.

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Lightspeed · **Reply #396 on:** November 22, 2003, 03:41:59 pm

two release posts right next to each other

Here's the cargo pods, for those Deus Ex Machina players out there

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note that this will be one of the last shinemap sets (maybe the last one, even) in this thread, so if you only want specific shinemaps the best time to get them is now, since soon there will be only the full pack

Woolie Wool · **Reply #397 on:** November 22, 2003, 04:08:51 pm

Hmmm, the top and bottom of the Vasudan container look like army camouflage.

Sheepy · **Reply #398 on:** November 22, 2003, 04:47:24 pm

is that a problem? i doubt all the scales would be the same colour

Lightspeed · **Reply #399 on:** November 22, 2003, 05:17:32 pm

It's like that in the original texture, too

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