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Re: Internal orbits
Posted By: Mage	Date: 12/17/99 11:06 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Internal orbits (Maxaminus) > Ummm... the reason that lasers help is exactly BEACAUSE they are > blurred by the atmosphere. By looking at the way the laser is > destorted you can also make inferences to how the view is > distorted too. This is because it is very easy to predict the > path of a laser beam. Furthermore, it is much more expensive and > resource intensive to send up a satellite. (rockets are > complicated things, ya know.) And in the halo environment they > would mos likely be destroyed the moment they got into the upper > atmosphere. Ground based telescopes are cheaper by a > thousandfold in both the work that goes into them and the > resourses they consume.. Plus, you can hide them. Not to mention > that the best view of the inside of the halo can only be > attained by sitting on the oppisite side. (farther out your view > will be blocked or slanted, further in you get a smaller field > of view.) Having several ground based telescopes instead of one > satillite could also be more useful for purposes of > trangulation. I concede the laser. However, do your homework :) Its the future... and you are in interstellar space. Sattelites are getting cheaper. By the time we get FTL drive, a satttelite launch would be VERY cheap... cheap to the point of ridiculous. That and WHO NEEDS A ROCKET? No one. Use a portable railgun or ground based laser propulsor. Putting them into space would NOT mean instant destruction of he sat by a Cov weapon. Just build it KINDA stealthy, or build many really really cheap ones. Ground based ones have double the weather to deal with, and are easier to blind. A sat in an erratic internal orbit with even a FRACTION of stealth tech would be a bitch to find and kill. And the best view of the Halo is from a rotating point in the DEAD space in the ring's center. It has access to all of the Halo's internal surface, half the distance to focus on the ground, and can be hidden quite easilly (send up about 3 tonnes of chaff with it using a railgun type launcher, and its perfect).

Message Index

Human Space Capability	Napalm Loon	12/17/99 7:33 a.m.
...But where would they orbit?	septimus	12/17/99 11:39 a.m.
Re: ...But where would they orbit?	Grey	12/17/99 12:40 p.m.
I'm dissapointed in you guys...	Maxaminus	12/17/99 2:05 p.m.
Two possible definitions.	Dispatcher	12/17/99 9:33 p.m.
Re: I'm dissapointed in you guys...	SiliconDream =PN=	12/17/99 9:43 p.m.
Re: ...But where would they orbit?	Jägermeister	12/17/99 1:22 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 2:15 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 2:32 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 2:38 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 4:13 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Maxaminus	12/17/99 4:45 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/17/99 11:06 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/18/99 12:42 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mage	12/18/99 11:31 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mr. Eez	12/17/99 4:27 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	MacGuyver	12/17/99 4:49 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Mark Levin	12/17/99 5:02 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/17/99 9:42 p.m.
Uses for the Halo's axis...	Noctavis =PN=	12/20/99 3:31 p.m.
Stable Orbits (again)	Butcher	12/21/99 1:36 a.m.
Placing a satellite in the center of the Halo	Noctavis =PN=	12/21/99 10:35 a.m.
Re: Placing a satellite in the center of the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 2:33 p.m.
Unstable orbits... Why use a halo orbit?	Noctavis =PN=	12/21/99 6:31 p.m.
Tides on the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 7:03 p.m.
Re: Tides on the Halo	Someguy	12/21/99 8:00 p.m.
Re: Tides on the Halo	Butcher	12/21/99 9:35 p.m.
Re: soell	•Mimer	12/25/99 3:55 p.m.
Re: soell	Matt	12/27/99 11:53 a.m.
Re: soell	Daft Shadow =PN=	12/27/99 4:11 p.m.
Re: soell	Bachus	12/27/99 6:50 p.m.
Re: Unstable orbits... Why use a halo orbit?	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:40 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Nathan	12/20/99 4:37 a.m.
Re: Rotations	Forensic	12/20/99 11:58 a.m.
Re: Rotations	SiliconDream =PN=	12/20/99 2:21 p.m.
Re: Rotations	btrinen	12/20/99 2:53 p.m.
Gravity	SyberSmoke	12/20/99 3:09 p.m.
Re: Gravity	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:00 p.m.
Re: Rotations	Noctavis =PN=	12/20/99 3:11 p.m.
Re: Rotations	Aiden	12/20/99 8:08 p.m.
Spin that ring	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/20/99 5:12 p.m.
Re: Spin that ring	Dispatcher	12/20/99 9:43 p.m.
Re: Spin that ring	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/21/99 10:25 a.m.
Re: Spin that ring	Dispatcher	12/21/99 11:10 p.m.
L1? or L4-5?	Oddot	12/22/99 10:24 a.m.
Re: L1? or L4-5?	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	12/22/99 2:54 p.m.
Q: How do you spin the Halo?	Ironfist [CMG]	12/20/99 5:41 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Chris Huff	12/20/99 6:59 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Ringdude	12/20/99 7:18 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/21/99 11:06 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Someguy	12/21/99 11:11 p.m.
Re: Internal orbits	SiliconDream =PN=	12/22/99 4:06 a.m.
Re: Internal orbits	Thomas Magle Brodersen	12/21/99 3:06 a.m.