I don't understand how the damage we see in the on the Aurora when loading the game would de-orbit such a big ship.
I don't understand how fire burns in space, or why it would look like wind was blowing against it.
Well that's simple. The fire is feeding off of the air escaping from hull breaches. The smoke moving away from the ship like that could be explained by:
A) the shape of the hull breaches is blowing it outward and back
b) the ships engines are still firing, so it's accelerating while the smoke is maintaining a constant speed
c) it's on a the very edge of the atmosphere, with just enough air to provide some resistance to the smoke, which has little mass.
I don't understand how the damage we see in the on the Aurora when loading the game would de-orbit such a big ship.
I don't understand how fire burns in space, or why it would look like wind was blowing against it.
Well that's simple. The fire is feeding off of the air escaping from hull breaches. The smoke moving away from the ship like that could be explained by:
A) the shape of the hull breaches is blowing it outward and
b) the ships engines are still firing, so it's accelerating while the smoke is maintaining a constant speed
c) it's on a the very edge of the atmosphere, with just enough air to provide some resistance to the smoke, which has little mass.
Well that's simple. The fire is feeding off of the air escaping from hull breaches. The smoke moving away from the ship like that could be explained by:
A) the shape of the hull breaches is blowing it outward and back
b) the ships engines are still firing, so it's accelerating while the smoke is maintaining a constant speed
c) it's on a the very edge of the atmosphere, with just enough air to provide some resistance to the smoke, which has little mass.
the aurora was clearly not made for re-entry nor landing and a for a slingshot manouvere (what the aurora was doing) the woud not be close enough to a planet to touch it atmosphere or it should have corrected it earlyier also i think that the aurora had a lot of doors to make hul breaches les of a problem and air leaves a ship very quickly. in films and games it takes way to long for air to escape from a room of a spaceship. and the reason i think it had many doors around the hole is becease otherwise the player running to his pod would be viontly sucked somewhere,
there is a little thing called areobraking, you slow down using a planets atmosphere. its used for saving fuel.
Ooooh sassy.
The OP is over-analyzing the science of a ship getting knocked out of orbit, when it's a science fiction game taking place on an alien planet, which already requires you to suspend the disbelief of existing technology to GET to said planet.
The simple answer to his question is exactly what I posted.
And is probably what he already knows. I can see your point but your reply wasn't really what this topic is about.
The point is the people making this game are game developers, not astrophysicists. So it's pointless to have a discussion over science that the people who made the game likely never considered in the first place.
It's a game meant to be played, enjoyed, and experienced. Not a simulation whose accuracy and validity is in question. There are a TON of things in this game that make no sense realistically, but they are issues that are pushed aside to allow the game to be fun and not a chore.
In short, arguing over how the ship crashed into the ocean serves no purpose, since there is no way to come up with a definitive answer.
This isn't entirely related to this thread, but it's close enough: my current favourite theory is that someone shot down the Aurora because their pet stalkers were running out of metal to play with. No other reason.
In short, arguing over how the ship crashed into the ocean serves no purpose, since there is no way to come up with a definitive answer.
This isn't a discussion on how to make the game better or anything. The purpose of this topic is simply discussing said astrophysics for the sake of it. In short: for the lulz.
aurobraking is for braking and a slingshot manouver is for speeding up so no they where not aurobraking when they flew allong and aurobraking burns a ship too, the theorie about the damaged navagition system sending the ship into the atmosfhere seems like a good theorie to me. but about the discovery that ships where shot out of orbit beceuse they where infected seen on a pda in the precurser gun base meens that the virus is spaceborn and infects insanly fast, interesting.
aurobraking is for braking and a slingshot manouver is for speeding up so no they where not aurobraking when they flew allong and aurobraking burns a ship too, the theorie about the damaged navagition system sending the ship into the atmosfhere seems like a good theorie to me. but about the discovery that ships where shot out of orbit beceuse they where infected seen on a pda in the precurser gun base meens that the virus is spaceborn and infects insanly fast, interesting.
actually ships ALSO need clearance from the system to enter orbit, not just leave orbit, if they dont get it they get shot down, at least thats the impression i got from the pda
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Oxygen was being combusted as the pressure sucked it out of the ship, causing that effect.
Well that's simple. The fire is feeding off of the air escaping from hull breaches. The smoke moving away from the ship like that could be explained by:
A) the shape of the hull breaches is blowing it outward and back
b) the ships engines are still firing, so it's accelerating while the smoke is maintaining a constant speed
c) it's on a the very edge of the atmosphere, with just enough air to provide some resistance to the smoke, which has little mass.
"Now my Seamoth won't run! It only farts..."
I like it! See, things can make sense if we try!
there is a little thing called areobraking, you slow down using a planets atmosphere. its used for saving fuel.
The point is the people making this game are game developers, not astrophysicists. So it's pointless to have a discussion over science that the people who made the game likely never considered in the first place.
It's a game meant to be played, enjoyed, and experienced. Not a simulation whose accuracy and validity is in question. There are a TON of things in this game that make no sense realistically, but they are issues that are pushed aside to allow the game to be fun and not a chore.
In short, arguing over how the ship crashed into the ocean serves no purpose, since there is no way to come up with a definitive answer.
I'll just leave this here.
This isn't a discussion on how to make the game better or anything. The purpose of this topic is simply discussing said astrophysics for the sake of it. In short: for the lulz.
So is my theory of the Aurora deorbiting because someone tossed a can of refried beans into the reactor still valid?
Pretty self explanatory...
actually ships ALSO need clearance from the system to enter orbit, not just leave orbit, if they dont get it they get shot down, at least thats the impression i got from the pda