13 Apr 08
If you just lift of the ground you don't have to do anything differently than a normal liftoff. If you have just for arguments sake infinite fuel so you can take your time lifting of basically. Then you could wait until the force your ship can produce is just greater than the gravity at that time. So your acceleration is just >0.
How big this is should not be hard to calculate. (I quit doing calc's when i quit uni ;p)
But the more interesting thing is the effects that a shrinking planet would produce. First thing i thought about was energy loss in form of like heat from radiation and or ground being unstable and such.
How would a shrinking planet behave?
13 Apr 08
Originally posted by TeraThe first thing you could say for sure is the gravity on the surface would increase the smaller the size the mass became, we are assuming the mass would stay the same. The second thing you could say for sure is the whole thing would be heating up and if there were an atmosphere, there would be mighty storms for sure.
If you just lift of the ground you don't have to do anything differently than a normal liftoff. If you have just for arguments sake infinite fuel so you can take your time lifting of basically. Then you could wait until the force your ship can produce is just greater than the gravity at that time. So your acceleration is just >0.
How big this is should not b ...[text shortened]... from radiation and or ground being unstable and such.
How would a shrinking planet behave?