Should I or Shouldn't I?

[Aloofi]

I don't know what's the point of having wings in space.....
Unless for some reason the guns on the tips have a minimum separation distance.....
It looks kind of cool though.
But I would prefer a Naval looking ship.....like an Imperial StarDestroyer....

[trooper]

Originally posted by Atrocities:


Does this look like anything you recognize?

The horse nebulae ? Funny, that's a background I thought of for the pirates shipset...

Don't you think the pink/green mix is a bit...shocking ?

[ March 04, 2003, 14:26: Message edited by: trooper ]

[trooper]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
I don't know what's the point of having wings in space.....
Unless for some reason the guns on the tips have a minimum separation distance.....
It looks kind of cool though.
But I would prefer a Naval looking ship.....like an Imperial StarDestroyer....

I'm working on that, Aloofi...

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
I don't know what's the point of having wings in space.....
Unless for some reason the guns on the tips have a minimum separation distance.....
It looks kind of cool though.
But I would prefer a Naval looking ship.....like an Imperial StarDestroyer....

Could also be that IF you take out 1 gun there will be another on the other side where if they are together and get hit may loose them both

[oleg]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
I don't know what's the point of having wings in space.....
Unless for some reason the guns on the tips have a minimum separation distance.....

Actually, star ships WILL have wings in space

Not for flying of course but for cooling. Imagine some future mighty space destroyer. It must have a very powerfull power plant or engine. However good is thermoisolation, some heat will leak to the hull. Now, the only way to dissipate it in vacuum is radiation. For that purpose ship should have a big surfice area, something like solar batteries on MIR or International Space Station. Or something different but very wing-like. IIRC, when people designed spaceship model for 2001:SpaceOdessey, they want to put big wing-like radiator pannel but it was rejected because audience who supposedly knows not very much about space travel might think it is "not realistic" and cheesy.

[Atrocities]

The B'Rel and the The K'Vort

The idea behind the wings in space, or at least on Klingon ships, is two fold. They give the vessel a theatening look, and both the B'Rel and the K'Vort are atmospheric vessels as well as space ships.

As far as naval looking ships go, check out these ships: Pandoran Ship Set

[ March 04, 2003, 15:04: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[dogscoff]

Also, in that crappy film about the whales, I seem to remember the ship in question coming down into the atmosphere. Wings might be handy there, although I think in the real (ie not stat trek) future the idea of capital ships coming down for atmospheric travel is pretty ridiculous, at least until the technology gets so ridiculously advanced that things like air resistance and gravity could be almost completely nullified. Until then, stuff will be dragged up into orbit by space lifts or by specialised shuttles.