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I do few of these, and I wonder why, since spaceships were the reason I fell in love with science fiction in the first place... well, maybe it's hard doing them without borrowing Star Wars' riffs...

This would be an enormous thing... every spire containing the population of a small city, the "mouth" some tenths of miles in diameter so it can scoop enough hydrogen for propulsion...

And I sounded soooooooooo nerd, didn't I? :P
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Mood: Love ~pxyzyzygy May 10, 2013
That's a thing of beauty. Can I have a huge version of it for my big monitor's desktop?
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~drosera-sundews Mar 8, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's amazing. I totally love the design :)
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Mood: Love ~TheDrydenExperiment Mar 1, 2013  New member Professional General Artist
That is awesome to the point that other awesome things get jealous! I so love that.
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Mood: Love ~Me-Se Jan 28, 2013
impressive creativity... !
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*AxelMedellin Feb 8, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
That's too kind, thank you.
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~gwmcfetridge Oct 16, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
What is the hydrogen engine transfer to fuel idea? How much hydrogen is in space? (not being mean im actually very curious...) I am doing a concept of a space ship....but it contains solar systems inside of its main compartment. Kind of like a mobile viewing area only its huge, and these space ships are what make up the universe and maybe the universe is inside a giant ship as well..and so on :D I really like your concept though!
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*AxelMedellin Oct 16, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks!

Actually, hydrogen is pretty scattered in space... only a few atoms per cubic mile. For a ramscoop to work, and actually create impulse, the scoop would need a surface of hundreds of square miles... but here we are assuming we have particularly powerful electromagnets forming a net to catch and attract atoms from a large area of space.
I think ;)
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~gwmcfetridge Oct 17, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
So the hydrogen propulsion is like a hydrogen contained bomb? The explosion provides forward momentum while the blast and radiation are focused through an exhaust terminal and the radiation could be used as a heating element? I sounds like a super legit premise since you only need a few hydrogen atoms to cause a reaction, but how far could a few atoms propel a ship that size?
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Mood: Love ~Entropath Sep 22, 2012
Very unique.
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~dcmstarships Aug 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
unusual ship design!
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