Defiance of Tyranny by AdaPaszek

AdaPaszek

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12th Aug 2014

13th Jan 2015

The Defiance of Tyranny is my new flagship, the habitation ring is smaller in diameter and closer to the ship to present a smaller target.

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  AdaPaszek 15th Dec 2014
  0.783 radians/second, sorry about that type.
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  AdaPaszek 15th Dec 2014
  Pardon me, I got that backwards, the tangential velocity would be lower at smaller radii, but the anguler velocity gets much higher. And there is a "comfort zone" for rotational gravity. At the 16 metre radius that mounting it inside the hull would bring, that would give an angular velocity of 0.283 radians/second, which is well outside the human comfort zone.
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  AdaPaszek 12th Dec 2014
  But having the ring too close or mounted inside the hull would be impractical also, because the cetripetal acceleration can be expressed as a=V^2/r Which means that, to simulate the gravity of earth, an acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2 is required, thus as you decrease the radius of rotation, the velocity has to increase as well, with a very short radius the habitation ring would be spinning at insane speeds
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  Death_Silence_66 12th Dec 2014
  what you could do is add a cover to the ring. it would manifest as a large bulge in the hull and would provide the same targeting benefits as the origonal ring.. also a ring that elongated would be impratical.
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  Death_Silence_66 12th Dec 2014
  good luck firing acuratly from the edge of a spinning ring. also, the ring could easily be shot off or jammed by enemy fire.
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  AdaPaszek 12th Dec 2014
  But it provides a place to mount turrets that is elevated from the hull to provide better field of fire.
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  Death_Silence_66 11th Dec 2014
  on a warship, a habatation ring is highly impratical. i suggest making it smaller and moving it inside the ship.