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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
They would see stuff normally, albeit blueshifted and distorted, in a cone in front of them.
Drop the speed-of-light stuff; what can the captain of a supersonic aircraft hear? The exact same logic ...
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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
Sometimes genuine worldbuilding questions need explicitly writing advice answers. I guess this is a frame challenge.
What you want is a widget for shortening travel times that fits the tone of a ...
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Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
Like a flexible mechanical counter pressure suit
Worms normally use expansion and contraction along the length of its body to 'worm' their way through soil.
In the early days of space exploration, ...
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Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
Any shape you like - on the outside.
The inside functions as a vehicle control centre, a bit like an aircraft/gundam/autonomous-vehicle combo.
For some idea of what it might look like from their point-...
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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
It depends on the construction of your drive
The acceleration of the ship in an Alcubierre bubble is due to the compression of spacetime ahead of it. It is equivalent to that of falling into a gravity ...
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Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
Build the crawlways to accommodate their movement
An accordion like pressure suit should be possible. Something like aluminum rings and some sort of vinil or latex to connect them. The main problem is ...
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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
I am not sure that someone inside the bubble would 'see' anything from the outside at all.
As I understand it, the entire concept of the A-drive is to 'warp' space/time around the bubble, therefore ...
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View from a ship with an Alcubierre Drive
An Alcubierre drive bubble is less complex than people think it is. It compresses space in the volume in front of the ship, and de-compresses it behind the ship. This means that, at the same velocity, ...
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Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
If you like it, should have put a ring around it.
As in, the core system is a gimbaled hollow ring, allowing for natural movement and transfer of that to the outside. Data streams in over some screen/...
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Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
Biological Option:
They are able to form symbiotic relationships.
They evolved in close contact with another species, intelligent, but not sapient. This secondary species is able to learn behaviors, ...
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