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Slay1
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
How about a place to sit. It may be a long wait until recovery.
Will this act like a normal escape pod and locate the nearest planet and go there or does it just float?
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5/30/2006, 7:30 pm
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Quint89
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
It seems more af an emergency, emergency, emergency escape pod idea.
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5/30/2006, 7:34 pm
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Lucas P
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
I like this idea a lot.
someone mentioned seats - how would they work in zero gee?
repulsors? on an inflatable raft? I don't think so.
survival gear? definitely - this would be a box with first aid kit, ration packs for a couple of days, water and additional oxygen.
too heavy? - maximum 23 kilos (50 pounds)?
In microgravity, you can sneaze on it and it will move.
I think this is an incredibly practical idea, and surprised that it has not been implimented before.
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5/30/2006, 8:38 pm
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
I had another idea, expanding on this concept. Not one to save space, but to increase comfort and it is more like an upgrade for ordinary escape pods. Put an inflatable, transparent bubble into the entry door of an ordinary one-man escape pod. If you are in reach of a planet where you can land, you just fly there and land. But if you are in deep space and have to wait for rescue, you expand your cramped pod and get some space to flex your legs. Since sitting in a cramped seat for prolonged time can be potentially deadly to humans (as airlines found out), this would make sense to increase deep space survivability. You retain the hard shell and landing capacity of your pod, but in those cases where they do you now good, you can expand.
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5/31/2006, 4:20 am
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Trowa
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
How would this one-man pod be able to land if there presumably wont be any repulars or thrusters of any kind?
Also, to defend my reupsorlift idea earlier... They were only for the sake of easily moving this thing into the air lock. It looks alot heavier then 23 kilos (50 pounds).
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5/31/2006, 5:28 am
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Lucas P
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
I think it is safe to assume that the materials to build this kind of stuff in the SWU is lighter and cheaper than what we would consider revolutionary space age materials
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5/31/2006, 5:30 am
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
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How would this one-man pod be able to land if there presumably wont be any repulars or thrusters of any kind?
You didn't read what I wrote, eh? The IEP doesn't land. It is not the immediate purpose of an escape pod to land you on a planet. It is its immediate purpose to save your life and get you out of the ship.
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Also, to defend my reupsorlift idea earlier... They were only for the sake of easily moving this thing into the air lock. It looks alot heavier then 23 kilos (50 pounds).
Flip a switch in the airlock and lower artificial gravity to 25%. 
Then a 60kg IEP system will only weight 15kg, which is as much as 10 bottles of Coke. Not hard for one and easy for two.
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5/31/2006, 6:00 am
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Trowa
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How would this one-man pod be able to land if there presumably wont be any repulars or thrusters of any kind?
You didn't read what I wrote, eh? The IEP doesn't land. It is not the immediate purpose of an escape pod to land you on a planet. It is its immediate purpose to save your life and get you out of the ship.
Nevermind, I misread.
I thought you were designing a one man pod that came off your IEP. Designed so that one guy could land on a planet and then call for a rescue team for his friends.
Sorry about that. 
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5/31/2006, 8:35 am
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Re: IEPs - Inflatable Escape Pods
I have been thinking about this a lot, but I finally came to the conclusion, that it should be possible in Star Wars, to put everything needed for atmospheric re-entry into a backpack. Droideekas carry an energy shield that is powerfull enough to deflect dozens of blaster hits, which is a helluva lot of thermal energy. A similar shield, combined with a simple cooling suit, a small repulsor deccelerator and a parachute could land you safe on a planetary surface.
Four such packs along with the necessary suits and an IEP would take the same space as a one-man escape pod. So 4 guys could use the IEP, get in with the packs, evacuate, put them on in safety away from the ship, then leave the IEP and land on a planet. Sounds sick, but it should work.
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5/31/2006, 12:05 pm
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