Timeline for Building a spaceship alone in the wilderness
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| Apr 8, 2020 at 14:28 | comment | added | Topcode | what will they do in space then, just float up there for all of eternity | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 11:33 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Except why would the character even need a heat shield? they're trying to leave the planet, not land on one.. you only need the heat-shield for reentry. | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 16:09 | comment | added | Topcode | lets say you want an ablative heat shield from what i gater epoxy resins are used, maybe you can use tree sap. for no ablative heat shields you block the heat, you dont have much to work with the further back you go | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 16:03 | comment | added | TCC | Yes, but how, and why is it so hard to make a perfect one? | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 16:01 | comment | added | Topcode | that heat sheild will make it much harder and one mistake on it and... you die | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | TCC | Mm, but my question is exactly why is making a heat shield impossible? This client is pretty certain that his genius character could do it, has absolutely no idea how but that's not deterring him from writing this, and I'm looking for either wiggle room through for this character to be able to do it, or cast-iron proof that it would be genuinely impossible. | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:50 | comment | added | Topcode | well this X rocket wouldnt even work you would still need a het sheild, unless hes sent back to like 1950 he has no chance | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:46 | comment | added | TCC | Well yes. I want to emphasise again that understand that the question is ludicrous. I just want further information on exactly how it's ludicrous. I suspect tha blacksmithing wouldn't cut it since you need a perfectly smooth shell to avoid burning up in space. So surely the question would be, how to create the technology required to create those. In theory if I work back far enough then this character could make the technology, but he's still working alone so I wonder whether that would lead him to an impossible task somewhere along the line. | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:28 | history | answered | Topcode | CC BY-SA 4.0 |