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29th March 2013 01:02
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EM/EG craft - cockpit / bridge arrangements
for this topic, i wish to explore and discuss, to hash out, what is or is not needed to build a suitably conventional cockpit or command bridge interface for earthling humanites (ie, generally non-spiritual, and unpowered/ un-gifted people) to operate and fly electromagnetic / electrogravitic craft.
The reason for this is because i've heard a great many rumors about 'magical' control interfaces like mind-interfacing chairs and electro-lava-lamps that you have to Think specific colors and patterns at in order to control a given craft, nevermind an abundance of undertones and overtones of the ship itself being more a metallic creature than what we humans think of as a craft, vehicle or ship.
As Impressive and wonderous as it would e to actually use such interface devices, im inclined to think that such things are thusfar a major turn-off for the majority of earthlings so far, and is likely a contributing inhibitor to the spreading of the understanding of electromagnetic flight technologies, nevermind actual construction and use of. Therefore, i think it is best that we earthlings 'rig' the controls of such a flight craft to an arguably more 'conventional' format.
(yes, im well aware that such vessels may be arguably more accurate to be said to 'teleport' and/or 'dimension-shift' than any a-to-b-to-c-to-d journeying from point A to point B, the way 'flight' is said to indicate.)
Eventually, i would like for this topic, or the resulting ideas and conclusions, to be used as a how-to reference for other "Flying Saucer" builders.
to get things started, i shall double-post my rather preliminary reasoning's and observations below.
Nominally, your post should be detailed as to the what, the how and the why, and hopefully without being too jargon-y, although due to the technical nature of the topic, i understand if we may have to get to the point of almost wholesale arcane speek.
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29th March 2013 01:40
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Re: EM/EG craft - cockpit / bridge arrangements
In my own endeavor to build an EM flight craft, i understand it to be necessary that any flight control computer units (optimally, craigslist-bought laptops) may be needed to be linked together with fiber-optics cords, because light isn't likely to be messed with by magnetic fields.
The controls would primarily consist of 2 flight-sim twinned joysticks (an otherwise identical left/right model) to separately control horizontal and vertical directional movement, with smaller thumb-joysticks to control directional pitch-roll-spin orientation, along with an adjacent flight-sim engine control bank, and probably a more general-interface computer off to the side, below the large TV view-screens linked to external cameras, if windows are avoided.
the reason i project the use of flightsim cockpit gear and other common items, is that it is, to the best of my understanding, and depending on the device-interface softwares, it probably wont matter in terms of use-performance that just about everything in the cockpit came from the local shopping marts and other specialty stores, so long as it is an inner-most faraday cage and is insulated from the magnetics of the engines.
the components im not sure about, however, are arguably more conventional things like altimeters, and other gobs upon gobs upon gobs of switches, buttons levers knobs blinkies and other 'more conventional' components of what we have thusfar seen on related craft such as the space shuttle, any sort of aeroplane or jet plane, and perhaps even boats and wet-navy ships, as such functions are either no longer applicable, or can probably be controlled via a more digital computer interface function, unless so desired to contine to be distinctivly featured as a seperate greeblie-control panel.
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29th March 2013 13:21
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