ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social to Rimworld@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago"Ship Design" (Art by Aeolys)pawb.socialimagemessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squareFoxlore@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·17 days agoThere are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.
minus-squaremonogram@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-217 days agoShouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes? If you removed the disk of the enterprise you’re basically there.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·17 days agoA disk is just a very short tube.
minus-squaremonogram@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days agoIn CAD maybe but air pressure doesn’t work that way
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoNot with that attitude it doesn’t! We’ve got shields to tell the air pressure how to behave.
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoThat sound you’re hearing is a mob of angry topologists
There are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.
Shouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes?
If you removed the disk of the enterprise you’re basically there.
A disk is just a very short tube.
In CAD maybe but air pressure doesn’t work that way
Not with that attitude it doesn’t! We’ve got shields to tell the air pressure how to behave.
That sound you’re hearing is a mob of angry topologists