I was reading over Catie Helm's message about submarine and
starship hulls and wondered about layered material for hulls.
Is it possible to build hulls out of various materials? Perhaps
a layer of titanium, a laayer of plastic, another layer of
titanium followed by a layer of ceramic and so on? I imagine
that it would be a pain to put together; however that is
what high technology is for.
Perhaps even a mesh that forms the basic hull shape, and then
everything else is sputtered+ on, a molecular layer at a time.
It would be sort of cool to watch, you'd start out with the
wireframe model, and then all of the layers would be added.
Windows would just have clear molecules put over the wire frame,
Hardpoints would have to be designated before hand, due to the
trouble of cutting away the hull. Hard to due plus might weaken
the hull overall.
Matt
+ I'm not sure of the real term for this. Sputtering is what
I've heard my dad refer to the way he builds test crystals
in his lab.
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