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[bulldogtrekker]

What's your favorite non-aerodynamic spaceship design?

by Charlie Jane Anders

We all know that spaceships don't need to be aerodynamic, unless they're entering an atmosphere at some point. Any craft which purely navigates in space should be designed with other considerations in mind — like warp field mechanics. Or pure coolness. And yet, a surprising number of pure spaceships in science fiction seem to have been designed, at least in part, for atmospheric flight....

Link:
http://io9.com/5963477/whats-your-favorite-non+aerodynamic-spaceship-design?utm_source=io9.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation


Firefly's Serenity


Battlestar Galactica new


2001's Discovery


Star Trek's Galileo


Borg Cube

EDIT: This post went nowhere on old All Sci-Fi; feel free to post your favorite non-aerodynamic spaceships here.

[Bud Brewster]

I disagree, sir. The shape of your spacecraft ain't gonna help if a micro-meteorite hits it at several thousand miles an hour or more. What spaceships need are protective force shields which deflect such dangerous little devils away, even at light speed or above.

There's a book I read recently which does a great job of explaining the importance of force shields and how they protect the spacecraft. The spacecraft looked like this, because it definitely did fly inside atmospheres on many occasions.



Damn, what was the name of that book?

Oh, right? It was my book! (And this is the other cover I considered.)



PS: Sorry to be so self-aggrandizing today guys, but I'm just jazzed about getting a good review from Clarion!
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[ShadowLandz100]

Well, according to some who have studied the UFO stories, they claim the UFO's have a protective magnetic field surrounding the craft which does several things.

It protects the inhabitants inside the craft from all the sudden 90 degree turns at extreme speeds so often seen by witnesses, and there have been reports of U.U.O.'s (Unidentified Underwater Objects) -- UFO's that can dive into the water and later emerge and fly away at high speed. These have been seen going into lakes and oceans over every location on earth, probably to some submerged bases maybe ?

This field also protects the craft itself from traveling through the atmosphere at extreme speeds from disintegrating from the friction that would be created, and it would also destroy anything coming into the field, like micro meteorites or even bullets from us -- heh.

And some theorize that this magnetic field can be seen, due to the color changes witnesses have claimed they see when these craft accelerate, changing colors. In other words, they live in a bubble of protection.

Those who say these are from our own military are further from the truth, as to generate this kind of magnetic force field would require an enormous internal power supply, which at this time I doubt we can achieve. If we could, then we'd be in space by now -- not by the roman candles we now rely on, but by saucer-shaped or other craft using this unlimited power source.

Karl
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[orzel-w]

The Millennium Falcon won my heart from the word, "What a piece of junk!"

But then the Imperial Star Destroyers are nothing to sneeze at either.
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[Bud Brewster]