Polarise the hull! Could this be how Battlestars defend against laser fire?

Senmut · April 17th, 2004, 08:21 PM

Could this be something like what Cain meant when he ordered all electronics defenses to maximum power?

http://www.copybook.com/publications...=232&artID=451

amberstar · April 17th, 2004, 09:30 PM

Think you might be on the right track!

Amber

thomas7g · April 17th, 2004, 10:07 PM

That may make sense, but I assume he ordered electronic jamming and other countermeasures to mess with cylon targeting systems.

Westy · April 18th, 2004, 03:07 AM

Wow...is that real? If it is, it's incipient shield technology, in 20 years something like that could more resemble you know....sheilds like in Star Trek or something

That's so cool.

Senmut · April 18th, 2004, 08:18 PM

Indeed. It's about time. And if we can put it on a space ship, could it shield against radiation, as well as micrometeorites? (If not the idiot critics)

thomas7g · April 18th, 2004, 09:00 PM

I can see one major drawback. I bet something like this would really attract the lightningbolts!

Now... if you are going over 88 mph and have a flux capacitor, then no problem. otherwise pass the barbeque sauce cause you're Kentucky Fried!

Ioraptor · April 18th, 2004, 09:02 PM

Thanks Senmut for the link. You had me looking for over an hour for a article about EM pulse and missile/bullet destruction/deflection. -- Sigh. --- Read it and posted it with a link on some other site a month or two ago,....cant find it now. I will post it when I find it.
The point of the article was that EM pulse weapons could be used to melt bullets and destroy missiles in flight. Fun stuff. It IS the beginning of force fields and deflector screens.

Senmut · November 24th, 2004, 12:39 AM

Did you ever find what you were looking for, Io?

bsg1fan1975 · November 24th, 2004, 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas7g

That may make sense, but I assume he ordered electronic jamming and other countermeasures to mess with cylon targeting systems.

you are correct Tom. I do recall that being done in "The Living Legend"

Your memory points just went up again! You get a

for having such a good memory!

justjackrandom · November 24th, 2004, 08:39 AM

Can't believe I missed this thread before!

The armor technology here is one step below ES (electrostatic) armor, which places the field in front of the solid armor plating instead of having it as one of its layers. This is the same technology that was probably in use by the Terran's for their prison doors in ET. While this electrical armor is exciting stuff, it is doubtful that the Galactica would make use of such primitive technology. I also doubt that it would be effective against true laser weapons.

As for the electronic defense fields called for by Commander Cain, I have always assumed that since the Cylons have weapons that have some form of exotic particle radiation (pluton), these probably produce EMP at impact, and that the electronic defense shields are a hardening system for a battlestar’s electronics.

My 2P,

JJR

repcisg · November 24th, 2004, 09:24 AM

A most interesting approch to an old problem.