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...Doing it only, with thrusters....Now, don't get me wrong, but throughout the history of Star Trek and in the recent JJ Star trek. we have seen theses ships inside planets.
But scale wise for a proper function starship is going to be hard, to fly a large starship in the planet. Plus there are limits to this due to size and scale. The engines won't be a problem which is good, (due to the by product is radiation)
But none the less, would be awesome to see.
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More like shattering the ground with tremendous speeds
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cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
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oh i think they can go into the atmosphere of a planet they just have to have a sign put on them saying caution over sized load ^^
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Strange as it sounds, but true as it is, a bunch of Australian aero-engineers placed a model of this ship in a wind tunnel to see if it would fly apart - to their amazement, the ship was very resilient to the high speeds...
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you mean this ship can fly?
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In a way - it is sturdy and aerodynamic enough - so these engineers say.
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i just check it out and your right!
plus they would need shields to protect them at speed^^
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Maybe but if sturdy enough...not much if any.
Now that has you thinking eh?
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yes, make sure to add shields and show. if the comic does become a fan film i'll make sure to add real life elements.
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Well huzzah
Glad to be of service sir
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i'll need more then that when it comes to that fan film^^
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Well when done, please let me know my friend
Like to see the outcome!
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actly the drives act as anti grave if you read manuals
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wow!
i did not know that, thanks!
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Good job [and loved both your notes and Kasterborus reply: learned much!]
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Umm. Well, it's not that they run off radiation per se... matter/antimatter reactions produce vast amounts of high-energy EM radiation, chiefly gamma rays, but that is contained by handwavium in the warp core and used to produce high-energy plasma to power the warp engines, and it's the plasma exhaust that gives them their characteristic blue glow. Impulse engines are basically heavy-duty fusion reactors with a hole cut in the back, so they produce plasma too (nowhere as high-energy as the warp engines require), but fundamentally plasma is just really hot gas and isn't radioactive. Fusion and contained amat annihilation are both hugely cleaner than nuclear fission. The main reason Star Trek ships don't enter atmospheres is because they simply aren't designed to, in much the same way a Formula 1 car wouldn't be able to go off-road. They're heavy (the largest ships, such as the Galaxy class, tip the scales at almost 4 million tons), and they aren't particularly aerodynamic. Some ships, like the Intrepid class, are specifically designed with atmospheric operation in mind, and their designs show lower density, better load-bearing with thicker, less elongated structural elements, and superior streamlining.
Thrusters are going to be another issue altogether... if you're going to keep a starship hovering then you need to displace a HELL of a lot of air or exhaust downwards, simply due to how heavy they are. Antigravity exists in Star Trek but has been shown to have significant limitations and range issues.
However, we have seen the NX-01, the original 1701, and even the 1701-D enter a planet's atmosphere when necessary and continue to function (and in the case of the latter I'm not referring to the infamous saucer crash in Generations either). But I think the biggest problem with operating a starship inside of an atmosphere is that it hugely increases the risk of something going wrong, and you REALLY don't want to be in the area when several hundred thousand tons of metal come crashing down on your house, especially if it's got several cubic metres of antimatter onboard.
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You left out the obvious: Voyager landed on a planet multiple times (the first time may have been the episode, "The 37's"). Say what you will about the series, but we shouldn't leave out the Intrepid class ships.
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Apart from the bit where I said "Some ships, like the Intrepid class, are specifically designed with atmospheric operation in mind, and their designs show lower density, better load-bearing with thicker, less elongated structural elements, and superior streamlining", sure
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thats why you never let the enterprise d into your planet.
you know a lot about starships.
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I do, it's true. I read a lot as a teenager.
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One day when, i try to get my Star Trek Constellation comic made into a fan movie i may need your help^^
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