Originally posted by aldo_14
There's also,of course, the Vasuda Prime scene as evidence of non-aerodynamic fighters & transports being able to fly in air to space seemingly without any downwards thrust to keep them upwards.
I don't seem to recall anything beside the Horus in that cbanim, though if you uploaded it I could check out the details.
However the Horus is hardly what I would call a non-aerodynamic fighter.
Yes, it's not the best desing however with nuclear engines, even a very small lift factor would be sufficient.
You assume that there's a sufficient power source to do that, or a mounting base. Having a single piece of technological knowledge doesn't automatically mean you can do every conceivable thing with it, you know.
You're not clear on this one IMHO.
Actually energy is used so wrongly and in a mystified manneer by the media and unfortunatly teachers too, that I'm not suprised you made this mistake.
Force and energy are not the same.
When I exert force I don't have to expand energy - work or energy is only the movement x force. So with an object stainary against my force I don't have to input any energy into the system.
(The only reason why I have to strain my muscles and input power into a machince is that the force is created by a system that is not 100% effective therefore some of my input will continously bleed out as heat....however this ammount is miniscule...later you'll see why.)
You say I don't have the powerlevel needed to split a planet.
You also said I can maintain 1g on a ship.
However being able to do so means I can counter the full effects of a 1g gravitic field.
Think about it: that field is the sum effect of the entire planet! Gravity is that weak that it needs a lot of mass to create this effect. If I can counter this force this means I can create a field of my own that intersects with the Earth own an negate it.
There is no exessive energy demand or anything else - if it is true artificial gravity it will have the same range and power as normal gravity. Therefore a gravitic field of my own with a strengh of 1g will be able to completely nullfy the Earth's own.
I'm not splitting the planet yet, but there is no longer a cohesive force that keeps it together.
All I have to do is bore through it (there is no pressure, so I can cut it like butter) and send a H-bomb down the shaft....however if I think about it I don't even have to.
Even though I did nullfy the gravity field the thermic reactions still take place in the planet - and I just removed the force that kept it in check....it's blow time.
This is the reason why I demand people to propely see the issue of artificial and anti gravity - if truely done, with such effects these are already godlike powers.
That's why I'm adamant about the idea, that the system used on the GTA/GTVA ships is not true artificial gravity, but some phenomenon that fakes its effects.
You also seem to be assuming that they'd want to use anti-gravity drives on larger capital ships for space travel. But who says that would be more efficient? Perhaps it interferes with subspace travel, as gravity plays an important role in inter-stellar nodes.
In normalspace? I don't think so it would interfare and even if I couldn't use it in subspace it would still be magnitudes better than any other engine.
Reason? All other engines must use reaction mass where the limit on specific impulse is the speed of light - which is already the case with a gravity drive, since the effects of gravity travels at the speed of light.
It is already as good as any engine can get in term of specific impulse.
In terms of thrust this is the only drive that doesn't put structural tension on the ship, so there is no thrust limit! The reason is that gravity is a field force and as such has effect on the volume of mass instead an interaction surface.
