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RedAndCosmoteer sa me why a circle realistic

    sgtsches
    I'm not quite sure about it, but it allows you to mount weapons and thrusters on all six sides, and is better than a cube because they don't have hull stresses that are focused at the edges while spheres have none, which allow stresses to be evenly distributed around the hull, and is also good at holding in atmospheres...

    Of course i haven't really invested much of my time into this, but maybe you could do more research to see what a good design would be. What would the best realistic hull configuration be?

      RedAndCosmoteer i think its not realistik well i hink we see soon what real space ships are

        sgtsches We already know, but i'm talking about a good design, not something that we have now, but something that would work as a good spaceship.

        And of course, we could hollow out a space rock for use as habitat or ship, there would be a few engineering problems such as thruster balance, but it could be a very good ship.

        RedAndCosmoteer 0k whats useful

          sgtsches Idk, but maybe we could look at other websites and find out?

            RedAndCosmoteer how look you battle ships

              When I said I would leave you alone I lied.
              my realistic ship:
              image https://i.imgur.com/Bx805E8.png
              The ship has a crew of 4, 1 operating the manual control which can be swapped for autopilot, while the rest survey planets and stellar anomalies with powerful telescopes in a 2 month space flight before eventually landing back on earth in the ocean. the black panels at the front of the ship are a heat shield while the white colour allows the ship to cool better in the vacuum of space. the frontal armour on the ship protects the crew and AI systems module from collisions with space debris while also shielding most of the vessel from the intense heat created by a ship entering the atmosphere in preparation for it's eventual return to earth.

                real spaceships will just be long cylinders lol

                Jared
                I took your advice and I have made a refit

                image https://i.imgur.com/AvthNXX.png
                lol sorry

                Jared Really?

                Long cylinders?
                What about warships?

                EDIT: Late, but...

                IT'S ISAAC ARTHUR, NOT ISSAC AUTHOR!

                personally i think "real" spaceships should be only front mounted guns,with alot of thrusters for evasion as mounting guns on sides and rear generally can't hit shit (like bomber turrets in WWII,except the enemy interceptors and your bomber moves and rolls at atleast the speed of sound),so packing as much guns on the front for maximum alpha,and muh thrusters to try to dodge shots is the way to go (ofc this doesn't count if one side have superior defences or both sides got some very advanced tracking systems)

                  Dumb So all you'd need is a short cylinder, with a big shield at the front with weapons mounted. The cylinder would house storage, crew quarters, CIC, hydroponics, the reactor and all the essentials and thrusters

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                    RedAndCosmoteer i envision a gigantic brick with alot of guns and thrusters,packed with whatever a ship needs
                    image https://i.imgur.com/C0Iukty.png

                      These are what ships would look like. This one is more of a corvette/frigate:
                      image https://i.imgur.com/guehTu3.jpg
                      This is more of a dreadnought:
                      image https://i.imgur.com/qCChxyq.jpg
                      They are from the expanse btw

                      StarTrek lol

                        TotallyNormalPerson
                        I like the earth ships in their simple design
                        It's sad that Netflix got rid of the show, I don't know where to find it now

                        RedAndCosmoteer Long cylanders cause you need to create gravity in a ship somehow and the only way we can do that is with artaficial gravity, all you would have to do is rotate it at a certian speed and there you go. and because thats the only wat yo create gravity and that seems to a thing people forget, we dont have the technologie to create gravity other then rotational, and i personally think we wont ever find a way other than that. second of all you still canput weapons on it however there will never be war in space as it is completely pointless, not because war is bad, but becase you can easily doge any shots and when you do fire something that shot will go on forever untill it hits something, plus you lose all chances of hiding, you can easily set up radar stations throughout your system and detect ships that sitting in the system next to us. If you would like to know more about stuff like this watch Issac Author on youtube

                          Jared In the expanse artificial gravity is created by the thrust of the 'Epstein drive'. The ships have floors arranged vertically so when the ship goes fast they have gravity. Ware-fare in the expanse is mostly of torpedoes, which track the target at high speeds, so you have to have point defence and stuff as you cannot dodge advanced and fast torpedoes easily. War happens when different factions disagree, which will definitely happen in the future, so i can imagine wars. As well as pirates! there will probably be some pirates if our would ends up like one in the expanse.
                          StarTrek Amazon prime has season one and two but you have to buy season 3

                          TotallyNormalPerson
                          A: sure if you have a ship moving in a certian direction oull experiance some gravity however youd have to be moving to, with cylanders all you have to is rotate them and have consistent gravity even when not moving.
                          B: yea of course there will be wars however im talking about ship - ship combat, just because you can use weapons like misses dose not mean that it would be pratical, yea sure i can go out strap missles to my ship and hunt down cargo ships, however all they would need is pd with a wide spread, to shoot it down, meanwhile the other pd shots that missed ill continue on forever, witch can cause future issues. Plus lets say there was a area with high piracy, you can easily detect ships even if your light years away.
                          C: I doubt that there would be much piracy anyways and conflict really. First what reason would there be for pirates to exist, in a future where space travel is available for everyday citizens then theirs probably enough recesses that we would be in a post scarcity civilization (AKA no jobs and money is needed) however i doubt that people would have space ships like we have cars today, thats not saying that you cant have a ships license, we don't have every citizen with a plane sitting in their garage however there are a few people out there who do have a pilot license but don't fly planes as their day to day job. Most space travel would be done by companies like airport companies today, and if you did want a star ship pilot license you would need plenty of cash be trusted and be trained for a long time till you can be trusted to fly on your own. Even if we did reach a post- scarcity civilization there would be some sort of social system like in china today where your actions are watched and you will be denied certain privileges based on your actions
                          D: Now moving to the possibility of finding other life forms one thing i notice that people over see is desseses, when the Europeans ventured to the new word they brought a bunch of deadly desseses and of course we brought deses from the new world to Europe, now of course the chances of us getting desses from an alien planet would be low as i see we would have micro machines dealing with those for us, however i can imagine us killing off many plants on a alien world, to avoid that we would have already scanned that planet with self replicating drones that would also send out millions of micro drones to research the planets and check out the life there, or we can do the longer but possibly better option of transforming a planet to our needs or when we get all the information on that planet bioform the colonists. Now for finding Intelligent alien life equal to us or better, well we have no evadince of them existing out there as we see no sings of a K2 civilization, however lets say we do and we do go meet them they would probably be simmer to us as in they would probably also have the to keep them healthy, however if they were Xenophobic they they would easily just tell us to stay away, and chances of them wanting to purge us is low if you ask me as a civilization that wants death to all who are not them would have killed themselves off in their own wars on their planet.