The more I witness storylines pertaining to straining the use of shields, the more it got me wondering .... how much power is actually diverted to shielding.
Being that shields are this automagic bubble around the ship, recieving enemy fire at bursts of whatever... crews are able to calculate how many more hits the shielding can take before it fails... after shielding fails, they would have to rely on armored plating.
Now when traveling into the sun, shielding blocks off most radiation and heat. Is that even possible? for energy shields to block out radiation?
I know we have sunglasses and lotion that blocks out UV rays ... but that's a fraction... and that's using material to produce... not pure energy.
In addition, although they powered down all non-essential systems to the ship just to have more power for the shields, in this episode, they travel into a blue dwarf... The heat is 'X' times more than a standard star like our sun.
Continuity ensues when you'd figure.... traveling into a blue dwarf with maximum power diverted to shields vs. minimum power diverted to shields plus every other system around the ship to keep the crew in populated areas alive from enemy ship fire...
The understanding of power reserves is lost somewhere in the mix. Remember... Destiny can never have a 'full charge'. In addition, the structural plating the ship is made from is circa millions of years old.
Besides the robot drones repairing Destiny, the ship never EVER lands to obtain raw material to manufacture for part replacement.
We also never encountered a matter/anti-matter replication device. We only came across a wireless battery recharging station.
On another note... any and all types of metal corrode or break down over time even without the presence of oxygen. Destiny has been going on active since the Icarus crew arrived for almost 3 years now. The solar collectors and energy cannons have yet to jam, especially after countless encounters of space battles.
Not busting on Destiny... the same applies for other Sci-Fi shows as well. Just that this is a Destiny thread, so using it as primary example.
Last I've read like a year ago, energy shields are real in research and development, but not to the extent of blocking radiation or fully blocking projectiles from hitting the emanating target. They have yet to make it into a more effective large scale mass production reality.
Thoughts?
Being that shields are this automagic bubble around the ship, recieving enemy fire at bursts of whatever... crews are able to calculate how many more hits the shielding can take before it fails... after shielding fails, they would have to rely on armored plating.
Now when traveling into the sun, shielding blocks off most radiation and heat. Is that even possible? for energy shields to block out radiation?
I know we have sunglasses and lotion that blocks out UV rays ... but that's a fraction... and that's using material to produce... not pure energy.
In addition, although they powered down all non-essential systems to the ship just to have more power for the shields, in this episode, they travel into a blue dwarf... The heat is 'X' times more than a standard star like our sun.
Continuity ensues when you'd figure.... traveling into a blue dwarf with maximum power diverted to shields vs. minimum power diverted to shields plus every other system around the ship to keep the crew in populated areas alive from enemy ship fire...
The understanding of power reserves is lost somewhere in the mix. Remember... Destiny can never have a 'full charge'. In addition, the structural plating the ship is made from is circa millions of years old.
Besides the robot drones repairing Destiny, the ship never EVER lands to obtain raw material to manufacture for part replacement.
We also never encountered a matter/anti-matter replication device. We only came across a wireless battery recharging station.
On another note... any and all types of metal corrode or break down over time even without the presence of oxygen. Destiny has been going on active since the Icarus crew arrived for almost 3 years now. The solar collectors and energy cannons have yet to jam, especially after countless encounters of space battles.
Not busting on Destiny... the same applies for other Sci-Fi shows as well. Just that this is a Destiny thread, so using it as primary example.
Last I've read like a year ago, energy shields are real in research and development, but not to the extent of blocking radiation or fully blocking projectiles from hitting the emanating target. They have yet to make it into a more effective large scale mass production reality.
Thoughts?
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