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Have the aliens landed?; Have the little green men made contact, or is it a figment of our imagination?
Topic Started: Mar 12 2010, 02:42 PM (5,492 Views)
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Humanesque aliens just tick me off EPICALLY. What better way is there to show off your lack of imagination and laziness?

THat said, alien sightings do seem faked. Saucers are more difficult to disprove, but i'm not sure.
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Well, saucers seem pretty impractical to me. They don't seem to be the most aerodynamically shaped objects, do they? Unless they are launched by a giant arm that frisbees them across the galaxy...
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Well, keep in mind that space is a vacuum. So technically, you don't have to be aerodynamic to travel through space. Your ship would be shaped like a box and it would travel just as well as a conventional rocket.
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Saucers are a fairly decent shape for flying and there have been several experiments with saucer shaped aircraft.
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With over-untiy drives, a more rounded shape is better for field containment.
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.

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Saucers are a fairly decent shape for flying and there have been several experiments with saucer shaped aircraft.
True, but they never caught on for a reason. High energy expenses and difficulty stearing, for example.

So, they must have an alternate form of locomotion. Perhaps some use of electromagnetism, negative mass, inertial drive, or some mix?
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And with an over-unity drive you need fresh unicorn poop to keep the pixie generator insulated.
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Aerodynamics mean very little in space. Have you looked at spacecraft at all? They aren't saucer shaped, they aren't box shaped, they're not airplane shaped. They're everything-else shaped, since the defining factors are things like mass, temperature control, energy gathering etc.

Saucers are actually quite good aerodynamically if you do them right, as lamna said. There has been actual interest in saucer-shaped aircraft.

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I can't believe you just said that...

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Well, keep in mind that space is a vacuum. So technically, you don't have to be aerodynamic to travel through space. Your ship would be shaped like a box and it would travel just as well as a conventional rocket.

Oh, of course. That makes sense. And explains the Borg Cube.
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Yeah.

Or the ISS, or Mir, or Skylab, or Soyuz, or the apollo LEM, or the Voyager probes, or the ATV, or the Hubble Space Telescope...
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Well, keep in mind that space is a vacuum. So technically, you don't have to be aerodynamic to travel through space. Your ship would be shaped like a box and it would travel just as well as a conventional rocket.

Oh, of course. That makes sense. And explains the Borg Cube.
I think they were just trying to convey the borg 'industriousness', as they had no imagination and they thought cubes symbolised industry.


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I think they were just trying to convey the borg 'industriousness', as they had no imagination and they thought cubes symbolised industry.


Or it could just be Rule of Cool?

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Saucers are actually quite good aerodynamically if you do them right, as lamna said. There has been actual interest in saucer-shaped aircraft.


Find me an example of them done right. I'm pretty sure that if they COULD work right and we had done them right, they would already be used by the military for their advantages. Their hinderances are far to great to ever be used effectively.

That's why Silverbeetle and Paperclip were both failures.
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