What kind of protection is built into ships to protect crews from the massive EMF fields generated by jovian worlds?
Skimming gas giants
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DGP MegaTraveller pictures and the Starship Operator's Manual talked about a static discharge probe. Looks like it just stuck off the aft end of the ship. Not sure how it was supposed to work.
Wow, interesting. I wonder if subconsciously I thought of that stuff and posted the other thread about DGP's material trying to mind this concept.
Thanks Spinward.
Thanks Spinward.
I even remember seeing a picture (Knightfall or SOM, perhaps?) where attention is called on the fact that a free trader removed its static discharge because its master believes GG skimming too dangerous in Rebellion times...
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Skipping or skimming?
Skimming. Sorry, I just answered a post on a thread about financing and repossession and I guess some wires have shorted in my brain
.A Trav hull makes for a wonderful Faraday cage. No worries.
Ah, that'll help you survive that massive lightening strikes (if you're fool-hearty enough to travel into a thunderhead), but what about the actual EMF field generated by the planet itself? The field is said to be deadly to life forms.
in Knightfall the ship's captain/owner removed the fuel scoops per page 95 citing risk of ambush. he kept the purifiers though.
Faraday cages protect from EMF's. (think nuke bomb EMP) The strength of these fields are nothing for a Trav ship hull.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter
True, and his ship is also pictured in SOM and this is the one I told about, IIRC.
mike wightman
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The manoeuvre drive produces a field that protects a ship from harmful radiation - mentioned in the CT adventure module Beltstrike.
Considering real world proposals to use powerful magnetic fields to maintain a plasma shield around a spaceship to do pretty mush the same thing, the maneuver drive probably does something like that.
Considering real world proposals to use powerful magnetic fields to maintain a plasma shield around a spaceship to do pretty mush the same thing, the maneuver drive probably does something like that.
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In MT this wouldn't be the case given the M drive specs. Thrust Plates that are pretty much unidirectional.
Okay, help me out here, I'm not a physicist. EMF = Electromagnetic field, yes? Ergo EM field. We have MRIs here on Earth that produce some whopping massive fields, no? Are we talking about the jovian EM fields themselves, or the radiation resulting from charged particles that become trapped in those fields?
If you check out this pic:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2...ship_size_comparison_by_arcas_art-d67b9vo.jpg
A static discharge probe is sticking off the back of several ships. The Beowulf, Suleiman, the Gazelle, etc...
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2...ship_size_comparison_by_arcas_art-d67b9vo.jpg
A static discharge probe is sticking off the back of several ships. The Beowulf, Suleiman, the Gazelle, etc...
Both. The ships hull as is can handle both without mods. It is relatively minor amounts of radiation.
Which would do nothing as they aren't grounded, anymore than the rest of the ship's hull is.
Which has little to do with static or corona discharge. In fact, should the hull actually be fully grounded, then there would be a path to ground and such devices as static discharge wicks would not be needed; the charges would simply flow to ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_discharger
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0234.shtml
and of course, a quick google of 'corona discharge' can give more detailed info including vendors.
Don't passenger aircraft carry lightning protection? All that is required for lightning to hit is for you (the craft) to be along the "right" path between a higher potential and a lower potential.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/print.main?id=2274851
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/2012_q4/4/
The latter site's data suggests your biggest risk is if you are in a (presumably, charged) cloud. The lightning would take a path along the external hull, but there's potential there for external equipment to take damage - a sensor or antenna, say.
They try to protect internal electronics. There is no "protection" available to prevent it from striking the plane in the 1st place. It is a common occurrence.
