They let the Millenium Falcon fly... :D
Dolash
My tastes are tending towards a Starship Science-Fiction premise more based out of what we know today to be possible... or concieveable.
I was searcing for some colaborative writing to that effect earlier. It seemed an unpopular idea... or perhaps it was simply posed by an unpopular person.
Huh?
Exactly!
But if it is possible, I'm with Dolash on most points here. Except the hiding beside a cloaked ship. That seems somewhat pointless to me...
But if it is possible, I'm with Dolash on most points here. Except the hiding beside a cloaked ship. That seems somewhat pointless to me...
It would stand out alot more than that. Hiding a ship against other ships in the blackness of space is one thing but covering your craft with flat screens that display the picture from cameras (motion or otherwise) on the other side of the craft would still make it visible. Also, your cameras would not be covered by these screens or they'd never be able to take their pictures.
The ship would be seen quite easily actually.
And that is assuming there is not a camera or flat screen broken or inoperable since it's exposed to the vacuum of space.
I believe your particular method of stealth is not practical for the application intended in the thread and would not work.
But as Brutus did not seem to contest the invisibility of the craft nor it's position in the hanger but just how many people Dolash can sneak aboard, he granted Dolash a nice concession.
But this is just my opinion.
I don't see how it wouldn't work - the flatscreen shows what the opposite flatscreen sees, right? Sounds invisible to me.
BUT.....it would appear to be a lot closer. In other words, if the ship landed 25 meters away from the hangar wall, then an image of the hangar wall would appear on the other side of the ship, but eye to eye it would be 25 meters closer than what it's supposed to be. Also, if someone is looking from the inside portion of the hangar bay to space outside, then wouldn't he be suspicious if outer space, as projected by the tv cameras, was suddenly in the middle of the hangar bay?
The way I envisioned it when I originally R&Ded it was that there would be multiple tiny flatscreens with multiple tiny cameras placed in between and behind the flat screens. That being said it was originally intended as a outer-space based stealth system and I agree with Kraken that it would be detectable indoors due to perspective.
What I am saying is, if the cameras are not covered by the screens they are visible. But if you cover the cameras with the screens (placing them behind the screens) then what would they show? It's a catch-22.
Are your comm antenna covered with flat screens?
Do you not have windows/viewports on the craft?
Are your landing struts covered with flat screens?
Are your comm antenna covered with flat screens?
Do you not have windows/viewports on the craft?
Are your landing struts covered with flat screens?
Not to mention the engines...