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| Xenophile | Feb 7 2011, 09:29 PM Post #61 |
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I see no reason why a genetically modified alien organism with magnetic 'bottles" built inside itself couldn't handle said reaction. |
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| FallingWhale | Feb 8 2011, 12:11 AM Post #62 |
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Think about the sheer power annihilation releases, it is more then enough to make the ship blow itself apart from a runaway reaction. Gathering the stuff in an organic ship would be nigh impossible. |
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| Holben | Feb 8 2011, 01:02 PM Post #63 |
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How does an organic create a magnetic bottle, BTW? If it was biomechanical maybe, but... |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| SIngemeister | Feb 8 2011, 07:39 PM Post #64 |
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You know what I find funny? How, out of my topics, all thrones I've slaved over, working out stuff I know less the Holben 'The Kraug' ilord about, this throwaway question has got the most non-me replies. Heheheheh |
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| Xiora4 | Feb 9 2011, 03:39 AM Post #65 |
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hm well if the ship was like this: a huge worm like ship with mechanical parts like a shield generator to protect from most of the dangers of space. a power generator and some kind of singularity machine. this is not possilble for humans to create but since it is possible for other races(if there is any) since the ship is alien it would possibly be stronger to radiation and such things. and maybe some kind of algie or mushrooms grows in it that transfer carbondioxide into oxygen at a realy fast rate that takes care of some of the oxygen need. i dont know if this is any good points. also look past any typos my english isnt that good EDIT: also photosynthesis would suply the creature with alittle energy. maybe also somekind of bugs that feed on mushrooms, live in the creature and get big and nutrishius from alittle mushroom. just some ideas.. Edited by Xiora4, Feb 9 2011, 03:46 AM.
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| Space Gorilla | Feb 9 2011, 01:37 PM Post #66 |
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What about an iron sphere situated/placed at the middle of the bioship that would produce a magnetic field to more or less repel some solar radiation? I imagine the ships like seashells with an iron pearl inside, either placed there by the travelers, or the bioship creating it itself with absorption of iron-rich rocks in space. The other stuff which is bonded with the iron could be used as "food" for the living craft. I already have two sentient cultures in my fictional universe that rely on organic vessels. The cultures of Malkessior and the Ariagu. looking at some of the (I have to say valid) points made in this thread, I probably have to change a thing or two about the concepts I have for their bioships. So taken that in consideration, I don't see any use of using them as examples for further discussion. Edited by Space Gorilla, Feb 9 2011, 01:37 PM.
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| Holben | Feb 9 2011, 03:17 PM Post #67 |
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if you want to make a singularity, and stop it eating your ship and/or evaporating, you've got a mighty power source if you harness its gravity. Lifeforms necessarily have a low tolerance for radiation. Deinococcus radiadurans, life's best shot at being indestructible, can take quite a bit, but over the time spans here it would die. photosynthesis is tricky in space. Light is faint. The CMB and cosmic rays could be harnessed i guess, but only with mechanicals. And photosynthesis creates its energy in sugars from CO2, the whole shebang must be recycled. And SInge, the Kraug was really bad. |
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| Space Gorilla | Feb 10 2011, 12:03 PM Post #68 |
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What about eating mineral rich asteroids? And the iron from the asteroids can be used to create an iron sphere/core inside the ship for magnetic properties. |
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| Holben | Feb 10 2011, 01:02 PM Post #69 |
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Movement of the minerals will be hard, and rapid breakdown. Giant grinding mineralised plates could make it into rubble is uppose, but a lot of it would fly out the way it came in unless it was sealed. And you'd need to get your vectors really right to intercept anything moving through space. Plus, you need to be able to accelerate rapidly and change course almost at a second's notice. How will this living ship detect the outside region? How will the ship get into space at first? How much of it is biological material? |
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| Xenophile | Feb 10 2011, 06:42 PM Post #70 |
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It is important to remember that our nervous systems are based on an electrical potential generated by disbalances in sodium and potassium concentrations. An organism could create a strong electro- magnetic field using organs similar to the neurons of an electric eel or ray on earth. This magnetic field could be used to create both a partical accelerator to generate anti-hydrogen and as a means of containing the antimatter. Large organs like the ones I have proposed could even use these to create a sort of "railgun" to launch the antimatter out of the ship where the combustion would happen. The ship would be propelled forward by the resulting blast. |
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