A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it kaladorn@xxxxxx (14 Jun 2020 00:21 UTC)
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Re: [TML] A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it Thomas RUX (19 Jun 2020 13:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Kelly St. Clair (21 Jun 2020 00:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Kelly St. Clair (21 Jun 2020 02:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (21 Jun 2020 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Phil Pugliese (21 Jun 2020 19:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (21 Jun 2020 16:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (21 Jun 2020 17:26 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (22 Jun 2020 14:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (22 Jun 2020 18:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Thomas RUX (22 Jun 2020 22:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic James Catchpole (22 Jun 2020 22:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Thomas RUX (22 Jun 2020 23:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (23 Jun 2020 00:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (23 Jun 2020 02:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (23 Jun 2020 01:11 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (23 Jun 2020 03:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (23 Jun 2020 14:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (23 Jun 2020 18:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Kelly St. Clair (23 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (24 Jun 2020 01:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (24 Jun 2020 02:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (24 Jun 2020 02:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Kelly St. Clair (24 Jun 2020 04:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (24 Jun 2020 19:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (24 Jun 2020 07:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (24 Jun 2020 19:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic kaladorn@xxxxxx (24 Jun 2020 21:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic David Johnson (25 Jun 2020 02:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Engineering magic Rupert Boleyn (24 Jun 2020 04:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff Jonathan Clark (17 Jun 2020 01:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff Phil Pugliese (17 Jun 2020 01:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff kaladorn@xxxxxx (17 Jun 2020 03:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff Thomas RUX (17 Jun 2020 12:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff Phil Pugliese (17 Jun 2020 15:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff kaladorn@xxxxxx (17 Jun 2020 17:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] A small ship TU and some other stuff kaladorn@xxxxxx (17 Jun 2020 07:46 UTC)

Re: [TML] A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it Thomas RUX 19 Jun 2020 13:19 UTC

Howdy Rupert,

Can you please provide the source that indicated there is a bubble of hydrogen around the hull?

Tom Rux

> On 06/18/2020 9:59 PM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 19Jun2020 1606, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> > Even in MT, they are mentioned in text and on a table, but there's no
> > detail of whether fuel goes into the main fuel tank (and the main fuel
> > tank feeds the jump drive)... or for that matter how the Jump Drive
> > consumes the fuel - all at once? in a metered way? How long does that
> > take?
> As far as I'm concerned, it's 'all at once', or nearly so. We know jump
> tanks work. We also know that there's no requirement to have any extra
> tankage on board, and that the jump drive's volume is very small
> compared to the fuel used (so it can't be stored there). So it's all
> used in some way in that short time between jump initiation and actual
> jump. IMTU some is used in a really inefficient fusion process to power
> the system, more is used as coolant, and most goes into creating a 'jump
> bubble' for the ship to sit in during jump.
>
> On jump exit the burst of hot hydrogen from the bubble bursting back
> into normal space-time is one of the signatures of a jump emergence (the
> other main one is the sudden gravity wave from a massive object suddenly
> coming into existence where there was nothing before). Analysis of how
> much hydrogen there is and how hot it is can give insight into the size
> of the ship and how far it came (especially if you've also got data of
> the gravity spike).
>
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