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griffin
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One of the many difficulties in haveing a manned deep space mission is that durring the course of the trip, you are very likely to be hit by a large number of micro meteorites, which would penetrate the hull and start decompressing your ship. Hence we need a solution that will match these peramitars.
1. must be able to temperarily seal a breech in a vessle very quickly.
2. must be capable of telling the onboard personel where the breech is.
3. if the area is breeched and repaired it must be able to function in the same capacity again.
some of the guidlines that are prefferable.
1. keep the weight of the system under 30% of the entire ship.
2. use current technology.
3. Cost effective
My solution:
Build cells that are about 6 inches wide, six inches long, and 3 inches deep. fill each one with a gell that as the temperature decreases then the volume decreases and the viscocity increases (basiclly it expands and freezes solid.) that way if it is hit in a single cell then the gell will expand and block the leek, and then the astronauts can seal the hole at the next conveniant time. If one of the conjoining sections is hit then the jell from all of the boardering cells will fill the gap, all of these cells will need to be replaced. the cell design is so that the replacementwould be easyer. each of the cell walls should have minute sensores through it so that it can scence A) the gell changing pressure drasticly, or B) a break in its sensing curcits. that would be then fed into a display that will tell the piolet where the breach had occured.
give your oppinions on this Idea, and give other Ideas if you have better ones.
P.S. the problem that I already see with it is weight and cost (which are intrensicly related).
have a good day
1. must be able to temperarily seal a breech in a vessle very quickly.
2. must be capable of telling the onboard personel where the breech is.
3. if the area is breeched and repaired it must be able to function in the same capacity again.
some of the guidlines that are prefferable.
1. keep the weight of the system under 30% of the entire ship.
2. use current technology.
3. Cost effective
My solution:
Build cells that are about 6 inches wide, six inches long, and 3 inches deep. fill each one with a gell that as the temperature decreases then the volume decreases and the viscocity increases (basiclly it expands and freezes solid.) that way if it is hit in a single cell then the gell will expand and block the leek, and then the astronauts can seal the hole at the next conveniant time. If one of the conjoining sections is hit then the jell from all of the boardering cells will fill the gap, all of these cells will need to be replaced. the cell design is so that the replacementwould be easyer. each of the cell walls should have minute sensores through it so that it can scence A) the gell changing pressure drasticly, or B) a break in its sensing curcits. that would be then fed into a display that will tell the piolet where the breach had occured.
give your oppinions on this Idea, and give other Ideas if you have better ones.
P.S. the problem that I already see with it is weight and cost (which are intrensicly related).
have a good day