Space Survivability of the B1B Lancer (theory)

[Devonai]

I imagine that stealing the space shuttle would be much easier if it was already in space.  Perhaps stealing Sir Richard Branson's newest invention first, then hijacking the shuttle?  You could send out a fake SOS, dock with the shuttle, then storm the crew.

[MicroBalrog]

Why not just have the SS2, or a similar craft, teleported across space? Cut out  the middle-man!

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Have the plane rematerialize in the middle of a gas giant.  No pressure issues.

Heck, depending on the chemical composition of the planet they materialize into, they might even be able to fire up the engines and fly around a bit.  It'd give 'em time to realize they aren't in Kansas any more.

[86thecat]

Instead of a B1-B can your characters borrow an Aurora? Since the next generation out of the Skunk Works hasn't been unveiled there would be some latitude for literary license.

[Perd Hapley]

Why not a '58 Buick? 

[Devonai]

Is that a reference to Heavy Metal?  It has been a long time since I've seen it.

[Tallpine]

Somebody already did a fiction novel about the Space Shuttle being hijacked.

I can't quite remember the name or author, but it may have been Homer Hickam 


Anyway... if you're going to teleport somewhere - it should be to a planet of tropical islands with bare-breasted native maidens 

[Perd Hapley]

Is that a reference to Heavy Metal?  It has been a long time since I've seen it.

Not that I know of.  I just figured if we were changing the type of vehicle, why not go all-out? 

[Tallpine]

Why not a '58 Buick? 

Will it go 88 mph 

[Jamisjockey]

Anyway... if you're going to teleport somewhere - it should be to a planet of tropical islands with bare-breasted native maidens 

For the win!

[MechAg94]

Why not a '58 Buick? 

Didn't Heinlein do something like that in Number of the Beast? 

[Antibubba]

Perhaps the effects of the time displacement have a radius (or the 4D equivalent) which transports a certain amount of atmosphere with them.  This remaining air keeps the skin from rupturing.  Further, the displacement removes them from the timestream in what seems to be an instant, but residual "chronons" prevent the atmosphere from instantly dispersing.  That way the loss of pressure is gradual.

[Devonai]

Any theory I come up with must conform to known particle physics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics

Quantum entangled neutrino pairs play a very important role in my existing sci-fi novels.  Perhaps there is another theoretical state of matter or relationship I can exploit in this case.

[Firethorn]

I figure it'll blow seams, but the crew will most likely die from asphixiation, even with O2 supplements.  Freezing takes too long in vacuum - it's a very good insulator.

[seeker_two]

Any reason why the Lancer can't just appear inside the atmosphere?....

[Regolith]

Have the plane rematerialize in the middle of a gas giant.  No pressure issues.

...not exactly.

There is an EXTREMELY large amount of pressure in the middle of a gas giant.  Just to put it into perspective, the hydrogen that is near the rocky core of Jupiter is under so much pressure that it's metallic.  The Galileo probe that was sent into Jupiter's atmosphere was destroyed before it got more than 140 km into the atmosphere, and it was made for that purpose.

The pressures nearer to the fringes of a gas giant's atmosphere might not be as bad, but then you'd have to deal with large amounts of radiation that is being released by the planet itself (though, this might not be as big an issue with Neptune or Uranus, but I am not certain).

[AJ Dual]

Saturn is postulated to possibly have a temperature layer and pressure layer that may be compatible with human life, save for the lack of Oxygen. And due to it's low average density, it would have a gravity of close to 1g if there were somewhere to stand.

Put a Saturn-like gas giant closer to the Sun, and have some more CO2 in it's makeup, and some sort of airborne photosynthesis going to provide O2, and the B1B's main problem, assuming it appears at the right altitude would be fuel and somewhere to land. 

[Matthew Carberry]

Materialize just outside of the operating envelope above a survivable atmosphere but hurtling, engines out, toward certain doom.

They can grasp the situation from the altimeter and start, say, engine restart procedures then black out from hypoxia and g-forces before the bird actually fails around them.

[Devonai]

That is not a bad idea at all.

[Perd Hapley]

I see what's going on now.  This Devonai character has no talent at all.  He just mines the interwebs for good ideas, and writes them down.  Mountebank.   

[AJ Dual]

I see what's going on now.  This Devonai character has no talent at all.  He just mines the interwebs for good ideas, and writes them down.  Mountebank.   

Maybe he should write a story about a Dyson sphere. But a skinny one, that's a loop. I don't think anyone's done that before.

Or maybe a series of stories about a guy who's effectively immortal, product of a freak breeding experiment. At about 4000 years of age, he time travels back to when he was a child and seduces his mother... Kind of kinky and off the wall, but at least that would be original.

[Matthew Carberry]

Devonai,

If it turns out to work for the story, feel free to use it.  Maybe name a red shirt after me.  Not enough Carberry's in books.

AJ,

Some kind of a "Hoop World"?  That's the stupidest idea for a book I've ever read.  Will one of the characters be a giant humanoid chinchilla that chatters before it springs or something? 

And as for the eternal perv, what's next, a story about a talking car in the same continuity?

Hack.

[mgdavis]

And as for the eternal perv, what's next, a story about a talking car in the same continuity?

Only if it's a spaceship too. Otherwise it'd just be unreadable.


And clones. 

[RocketMan]

The outside was made of Rene 41, a high nickle super alloy, I am pretty sure the corrugations were for temperature differences.

You can learn something new every day.  Thanks for the information, DustinD.
(I must sheepishly admit that I should have known that.  At one time I was rather geeky and knew everything a geek would have known about the construction of the Mercury capsule.  It's hell gettin' old.  They say the first thing that goes is the memory...)

[Devonai]

I see what's going on now.  This Devonai character has no talent at all.  He just mines the interwebs for good ideas, and writes them down. 

I can't argue with that statement except to question the word "good." 

They say there are no original ideas anymore.  I just look for creative ways to shoot aliens in the face.