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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5473141" data-attributes="member: 59506"><p>Very True. But, projecting into the future, micro-meteroids and dust are a significant hazard to inter-planetary and inter-stellar travel - along with radiation and lack of gravity - and therefore something that has to be protected against or such travel will not be possible.</p><p> </p><p>We can take care of gravity by using centrifugal force (spinning the vehicle). It's a workable solution, but obviously some type of artificial gravity would be more convenient for the occupants.</p><p> </p><p>But the skin of the vehicle will have to equally shield against micro-meteroids and dust, as well as radiation. There are ideas on materials that could provide this level of protection, but we are unable to make them as of this time. Some day in the future though, I'm sure we will.</p><p> </p><p>But, such a material that could protect against micro-meteroids, would also be nigh impervious to bullets. Even a rail-gun would likely not be able to do it. (Rail Guns right now can only propel a bullet at about Mach 5 - micro-meteroids can have relative speeds exceeding 30,000 mph.) Also, being able to protect against the radiation levels that it does, would probably make it extremely difficult to defeat with energy weapons (lasers, plasma weapons, etc.), due to the shielding materials and the power requirements of the weapons. That leaves the only real alternative as large, high kinetic energy missiles with armor piercing charges and high explosive warheads (or thermobaric).</p><p> </p><p>I love Sci-Fi movies and TV shows, but the reality is that future space combat will probably be more akin to submarine warfare than the way it's normally visualized.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 5473141, member: 59506"] Very True. But, projecting into the future, micro-meteroids and dust are a significant hazard to inter-planetary and inter-stellar travel - along with radiation and lack of gravity - and therefore something that has to be protected against or such travel will not be possible. We can take care of gravity by using centrifugal force (spinning the vehicle). It's a workable solution, but obviously some type of artificial gravity would be more convenient for the occupants. But the skin of the vehicle will have to equally shield against micro-meteroids and dust, as well as radiation. There are ideas on materials that could provide this level of protection, but we are unable to make them as of this time. Some day in the future though, I'm sure we will. But, such a material that could protect against micro-meteroids, would also be nigh impervious to bullets. Even a rail-gun would likely not be able to do it. (Rail Guns right now can only propel a bullet at about Mach 5 - micro-meteroids can have relative speeds exceeding 30,000 mph.) Also, being able to protect against the radiation levels that it does, would probably make it extremely difficult to defeat with energy weapons (lasers, plasma weapons, etc.), due to the shielding materials and the power requirements of the weapons. That leaves the only real alternative as large, high kinetic energy missiles with armor piercing charges and high explosive warheads (or thermobaric). I love Sci-Fi movies and TV shows, but the reality is that future space combat will probably be more akin to submarine warfare than the way it's normally visualized. B-) [/QUOTE]
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