• lime!@feddit.nu
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    1 day ago

    i mean the main problem for most spacecraft, even unmanned ones, is cooling. not because of internal heat generation, but because there’s nothing blocking solar radiation from hitting them and nothing around them to convect that heat away.

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      1 day ago

      Hm. Maybe you’re right then. I am both not an astrophysicist and am a bit stoned so I’m definitely willing to admit arguments here. I thought internal heat generation was the problem they were cooling far more than solar radiation but I could definitely be wrong.

      On a Sci-Fi Star Wars spaceship though I think the internal heating is definitely going to be the bigger factor.

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        1 day ago

        probably! especially on the super-shiny kind they use in that movie.