Space opera

Science-Fiction

Isaac Asimov (1990) : "'[H]ard science fiction' [is] stories that feature authentic scientific knowledge and depend upon it for plot development and plot resolution."

Arthur C. Clarke (2000) : "Science fiction is something that could happen - but you usually wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though you often only wish that it could."

Keep in mind though that you'll need to evacuate more heat than you would need (solar or anything else) electricity to stock/store up.



Do you have any scrap or "diagram" about the manta spaceship connected within its mothership and so on ?





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heat insulator :-/ Hence the necessity of evacuate the heat when you aboard a spaceship. But as we've seen, we can manage the heat by radiating it with large wingsKeep in mind though that you'll need to evacuate more heat than you would need (solar or anything else) electricity to stock/store up.Do you have any scrap or "diagram" about the manta spaceship connected within its mothership and so on ?Sorry for the long answer

Which Boeing ? Coz depending the model (and customizations), the plane might transport from 80 to 300 passengers.Well, size aside you intend to make some "spaceplane" ? I would advise you to put the porthole and so on, on the upper face. When a spaceship enter any atmosphere (even the light martian-type), there are a hell of frictions. This means obviously a damn good real shield, and not the electromagnetic type, because it would just worsen the heat and plasma caused by said frictions. Do not hope to use such "energy" : you would use more energy supply to protect the equipment destined to extract this uncontrollable "energy", than you can hope to extract, whatever the output you aimed. Unless you ask JK Rowling to lend you a unicorn or two with a bit of prophecy and so on. Like Star Wars (= space opera rather than hard sci-fi).Which are you choosing/writing betweenrequires a part of legend/prophecy and chivalry to some point (be it the whole chivalric code or something assimilable like The Black Company from Glen cook, etc). For example Dune is of space opera type (do not rely on Wikipedia) due to load of prophecies, chivalry, almsot-if-not-supernatural things, and even a pretty/rather manichean set of context.(Hard)requires a projection of actual science facts, either a dystopia or something on the verge of being a dystopia. I would go for those quotes :Depending your choice/orientation, there are things "we" can and can't with things you should and shan't. There is not a "better" genre over the other or what, just the way to deal/develop the/your 'verse and how to 'make sense' for readers. Problematic is focus either on(X)OR on what mainstream industry callBack to the spaceship and its biological "logic". Such thing can't take off, even less from ocean. It's less a matter of size than velocity.First : soft wings limit the speed, which explain why boned wings equip the faster/fastest flying animals.Second : sufficient speed to take off with such weight from the water would literally "vaporize" the water in a bad way, the same way a turbine causes water cavitation that quickly wears out the turbine.Third : to take off by fly from any surface, you need lift generated with speed through a viscous fluid (air is a viscous fluid, hence drags, winds, etc), but the fluid must circulate all around the object/wing and such wings/fins as yours would hinder the acceleration within water, hence you would surface at low speed but due to Archimedes' principle, not so much of the wings would actually emerge from the water in a position that would take the wind/air in a suitable way to take off. Marin animals who take off from water like flying fishes actually swim with very high speed, keeping longer fins along the body to reduce the drag/frictions and accelerate enough to "jump" out of the water, then "fly" fins are spread out and sometimes/often the tail (still within) helps to gain a tiny bit more of speed, though the fish has indeed already taken off.Fourth : those actual long tails might possibly hinder the take-off from ocean.I would advise you to land with a flying-fish profile for a spaceplane. The manta profile is better not to land. Another ocean-type profile to take off would be the birds, too. Last (and exotic) one : the flying squid (of course !). You may mix the squid and the manta maybe, with foldable fins/wings and an arrowhead "snout". How about this/these alternative(s) ?As for static electricity, you would be "able" to "use it" ONLY if you can make a controlled flow of electrons -- which is not what is static electricity at the surface of a spaceship of a cloud. Only thing you can obtain with this would be brutal unloads such as lightning. For example old/ancient screen of computer/TV functioned according to this static electricity (that is to say : you unload, you do not make any load/supply of energy).The wings can work as solar battery on a side and as heat releaser on the other side (the one not facing the sun). Any electrical or biological process actually produces heat (it's called Joule heating), which can cause great troubles if not controlled (e.g. death from fever, electric fires, etc). Problem is : void is excellent if not the best