Recent content by Jigsaw674

I added an analogy of the duck lawn ornament on the other reply. So the ark is the duck. The pusher plate is the plate that's duct taped to the back of the duck. Take the wings off and put little solo cup crew modules on the ends of the armatures. Your answer makes sense. It crushes the...

If you can picture one of those dumb lawn ornaments, the duck with the spinning wings, and then put your pusher plate on the back of the duck. The crew is in the area near the ends of the wings. The duck would then be everything else in the craft. The first post response is probably right on...

Given: original project Orion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) My idea is the addition of a centrifugal couch to regulate gravity to crew during the acceleration and deceleration phases of the trip. The Orion concept, for an interstellar ark concept, relies on...

Nothing on guidance, in response to how much I can help. Really, I am here to bring specific ideas before a group of folks who understand the math to get a thumbs up or a thumbs down and perhaps some required reading to try and get a greater understanding of the nature of the problem to see why...

Hi from the trenches. We the unwashed sometimes have physics questions and I feel that this is a good place to bring those queries. These questions that I have are going to be asked in rough draft form by someone who doesn't have the advanced education in engineering, science, and math to be...