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Friday is page 20, the final page of this Issue! Really incredible to have this done so much more quickly than before.
I’ll be taking a week break from the comic before Issue 6 starts up on the 22nd.
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While I like the idea of kind of building a waypoint between planets in "deep" space, it seems kind of infeasible. If you think about it from a normal travel standpoint, sure people want a place to rest between point A and point B, refuel, have something to eat, whatever.
The thing is, that works on Earth because Point A and Point B are generally stationary relative to each other. How do you build a station in between Mars and Earth, which are both orbiting our sun independently? The distance between Mars and Earth can vary from about 50-400 million kilometers, the greatest distance being when Mars is on the other side of the Sun from us. At that point, the sun itself would probably make a better anchor for a waypoint than anything else. Here's a good article about the matter: http://www.universetoday.com/14824/.....earth-to-mars/
I think that typically in larger sci fi this idea can kind of work, when you are talking about traveling between different solar systems. Even if they move relative to each other, you can still hop from place to place using the planets, moons, or stations orbiting any bodies in the system as waypoints. This doesn't work so well between bodies in the same system unless the bodies in question are in kind of a synchronous orbit. Also there is the issue of there not really being anything in between Mars and Earth for a station to orbit. It wouldn't be possible to just have the station orbit the sun like a planet (even if you could manage to get it going like that) and have it maintain a position between Mars and Earth.
The best idea I can come up with is that you'd basically build the station in a very distant geosynchronous orbit so that it was always maybe something like 25 million km from the Earth. This would only be remotely useful when Mars and Earth were aligned just right, and even then there's no guarantee that the station would be a good halfway point, as the distance fluctuates. You might be able to set the station out a bit farther, but I tend to think you start risking it being affected by Mars' gravitational pull at the closest point. Maintaining a geosynchronous orbit that far out in space would be a bitch as it is.
The station would also likely have to be large enough to be self-sustaining, or actually productive, since you'd want to have extra food and fuel for travelers. I suppose you could work out some sort of tariff system, as it would likely become a hub for trade between Martians and Earth in your universe. People do business there and in exchange provide a portion of their resources for the upkeep of the facility.
All that said, I'm sure you've already thought about some of this, or just wanted to make a cool story and don't care much. It's science fiction, suspense of disbelief, probably they have better tech than us that allows this to work, etc etc. If nothing else, the idea made me think about all this stuff and it's pretty interesting, so thanks for that.
The thing is, that works on Earth because Point A and Point B are generally stationary relative to each other. How do you build a station in between Mars and Earth, which are both orbiting our sun independently? The distance between Mars and Earth can vary from about 50-400 million kilometers, the greatest distance being when Mars is on the other side of the Sun from us. At that point, the sun itself would probably make a better anchor for a waypoint than anything else. Here's a good article about the matter: http://www.universetoday.com/14824/.....earth-to-mars/
I think that typically in larger sci fi this idea can kind of work, when you are talking about traveling between different solar systems. Even if they move relative to each other, you can still hop from place to place using the planets, moons, or stations orbiting any bodies in the system as waypoints. This doesn't work so well between bodies in the same system unless the bodies in question are in kind of a synchronous orbit. Also there is the issue of there not really being anything in between Mars and Earth for a station to orbit. It wouldn't be possible to just have the station orbit the sun like a planet (even if you could manage to get it going like that) and have it maintain a position between Mars and Earth.
The best idea I can come up with is that you'd basically build the station in a very distant geosynchronous orbit so that it was always maybe something like 25 million km from the Earth. This would only be remotely useful when Mars and Earth were aligned just right, and even then there's no guarantee that the station would be a good halfway point, as the distance fluctuates. You might be able to set the station out a bit farther, but I tend to think you start risking it being affected by Mars' gravitational pull at the closest point. Maintaining a geosynchronous orbit that far out in space would be a bitch as it is.
The station would also likely have to be large enough to be self-sustaining, or actually productive, since you'd want to have extra food and fuel for travelers. I suppose you could work out some sort of tariff system, as it would likely become a hub for trade between Martians and Earth in your universe. People do business there and in exchange provide a portion of their resources for the upkeep of the facility.
All that said, I'm sure you've already thought about some of this, or just wanted to make a cool story and don't care much. It's science fiction, suspense of disbelief, probably they have better tech than us that allows this to work, etc etc. If nothing else, the idea made me think about all this stuff and it's pretty interesting, so thanks for that.
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