ATTENTION BIOWARE: Space needs corrected.

[FennecFoxThomas]

I will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

 

 

 

 

2: When you complete a space mission, you go into lightspeed. Now, the issue -- while in lightspeed, you can shoot missiles. The missiles travel ahead of you. Therefor, the missiles are traveling faster than you in lightspeed, and in turn, faster than the speed of light. This is impossible.

Edited January 14, 2012 by FennecFoxThomas

[Daisai]

1. perhapse its the air inside the ship that blows up or the fusion from the reactor.

 

2. momentum ...

or just a bug thats going to be fixed.

[FennecFoxThomas]

1. perhapse its the air inside the ship that blows up or the fusion from the reactor.

 

2. momentum ...

or just a bug thats going to be fixed.

 

 

 

 

I don't think an explosion can occur in space. At least not one with any flames.

 

But momentum doesn't apply in any way to that lol

[SammyRath]

I too will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

1: Science.

 

2: Fiction.

[Omnitheo]

Tanks of atmosphere and fuel.

[XinnKoda]

1. Nuclear bombs use materials that cause a chain reaction and they carry oxidizers to potentiate fire effects. Many chemicals (when they burn) release oxygen. So it is possible to have flame in space.

 

2. Recent studies have shown that it may be possible to travel faster than the speed of light. Here is an article talking about it... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502223_162-57327392/2nd-test-affirms-faster-than-light-particles/

 

3. Really? With all the bugs this game has right now you choose to wine about shooting rockets at the end of you space mission? Honestly, if it bothers you, then don't do it.

[Nerana]

Real or not, I'd prefer the sounds and explosions rather than listening to an eerie silence and... well whatever would happen with destroyed ships in space.

[iamzombie]

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

[marshalleck]

In beta, the sound actually would cut out in space missions. Completely silent, as one would expect as an detached observer following the player's ship.

 

It was a pretty bland and boring experience.

[Pyretechnic]

Real or not, I'd prefer the sounds and explosions rather than listening to an eerie silence and... well whatever would happen with destroyed ships in space.

You could hear the micro debries impacting your hull.

 

Yeah, still would be boring.

[Jerig]

1) The explosion going off is the fuel and plasma going up uncontrollably. It explodes of its own because it releases energy without oxygen. Combustion is only required to liberate carbon bonds.

 

2) Hyperspace Faster Than Light travel is accomplished by tunneling through space. You go a realtime speed that then translates into a hyperspeed based on your hyperengine and realspace velocity. It's essentially an artificial wormhole 'shortcut' - like a path through the woods rather than around the woods. Well, you can take the road through the woods to decrease your overall time (thus traveling relatively faster than light without actually surpassing the speed of light in real time) faster or slower thus making your shortcut more or less effective. Hence because your relative speed in the corridor is less than the realtime speed of light you can fire a missile and it will go faster than you because its speed is faster than yours.

[delnorr]

I will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation. and aparently so did the starwars movies

 

 

 

 

 

2: When you complete a space mission, you go into lightspeed. Now, the issue -- while in lightspeed, you can shoot missiles. The missiles travel ahead of you. Therefor, the missiles are traveling faster than you in lightspeed, and in turn, faster than the speed of light. This is impossible.

 

 

and yes all of this happends in the moves. all the cool explositons sounds help to sell the shots in the moves it makes perfact sence to do the same in a starwars game. try watching the starwars movies without sound see if you still like it

Edited January 15, 2012 by delnorr

[Scyo]

i will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

 

 

 

 

2: When you complete a space mission, you go into lightspeed. Now, the issue -- while in lightspeed, you can shoot missiles. The missiles travel ahead of you. Therefor, the missiles are traveling faster than you in lightspeed, and in turn, faster than the speed of light. This is impossible.

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[Gstring]

I will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

 

 

 

 

2: When you complete a space mission, you go into lightspeed. Now, the issue -- while in lightspeed, you can shoot missiles. The missiles travel ahead of you. Therefor, the missiles are traveling faster than you in lightspeed, and in turn, faster than the speed of light. This is impossible.

 

Well it maybe possible to go faster than the speed of light breaking all previously known physics.

 

The Higgs, google it

[ticklefist]

I will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

 

 

 

1977 called.

[imtrick]

I will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

 

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

Have you ever watched a Star Wars movie? Apparently they have a different kind of space. The cool kind where you can blow stuff up in it.

 

2: When you complete a space mission, you go into lightspeed. Now, the issue -- while in lightspeed, you can shoot missiles. The missiles travel ahead of you. Therefor, the missiles are traveling faster than you in lightspeed, and in turn, faster than the speed of light. This is impossible.

 

Einstein said it was impossible, but it's a theory. There's actually some pretty serious research going on these days that could possibly prove he was wrong.

Edited January 15, 2012 by imtrick

[Nightsorrow]

Real or not, I'd prefer the sounds and explosions rather than listening to an eerie silence and... well whatever would happen with destroyed ships in space.

 

I would love and eerie silence. Then I would start up th soundtrack from Firefly, and remember a sci-fi series that got one important thing right, sound doesnt travel in space.

 

I wish more sci-fi could be done in that way.

[Osium]

There will be explosions in space beceause all of these ships dun dun dun have atmosphere inside their cockpits. This means when a fighter goes boom, there is oxygen and other atmospheric gas that can and will ignite, albeit briefly.

 

This is in no way shape or form scientific fact. This is my assumption based on the concept that there is atmosphere in the cockpit and the ships will carry fuel! Oxygen+fuel=boom!

[Jezzikah]

So....multiple alien species/races, using the "force" to shoot lighting with your hands and choking someone 10 meters away believable...

 

But..fire in space and shooting missiles you have a problem with?

[mcfabulous]

All I can say to this topic is

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-science-light-idUSTRE78L4FH20110922

[Triss]

I too will sum this up in 2 quick and accurate ways:

 

1: Science.

 

2: Fiction.

 

This. Please learn to take things with a pinch of salt. Things are more attractive if they go boom.

[Seattlite]

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^Pretty much, this. Really, OP? Really?

[TheUnNamedHero]

1: Space is a vacuum. There cannot be explosions in space, as there is not oxygen in space, which fire requires. The movie Armageddon also got this wrong with their nuclear bomb detonation.

 

You mean movies and video games aren't an accurate representation of how the world works, and dramatizes things for entertainment purposes? Man. Total life changer.

[SwigMcJigger]

What if we can breath in space but they just don't want us to escape...

[Slightrider]

A. The explosion supplies its own fuel source.

 

 

B. Time and space are relative - not enough room on this forum to explain, you either get it, or you don't.