@alan @phil What direction do I go with this?

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Don’t really know where to go with my third vehicle (new ice age vehicle) had the idea to design a drill that will carve and build a track / road through the ice for a public transport vehicle to follow. The drill and public transport vehicle are separate. So far, the drill is made up of 4 parts – the drill, the part that freezes the water and forms the track, the part that forms the reinforcement for the tunnel and another part to flatten the floor, as it goes through the ice and creates a tunnel it collects water, which is re-frozen and used to strengthen the tunnel and stop it collapsing.
  • ·         Do I design and build the drill or
  • ·         Do I design how the drill works and build the public transport vehicle? I wont have enough time to build both. 
  • ·         I think the drill would be really interesting to build and this is what I’m swaying towards.
  • ·         It would be good if I could collaborate with someone, so I design and build one of the vehicles and someone else designs a concept.
  • ·         Or, do I go back to square one and design something for a different scenario


Thomas ward

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5 comments:

  1. Alan Postings21 December 2017 at 15:24

    The problem with a drill and freeze boring machine is that I don't know how long that would tunnel last and where would the excess material go. Freezing is not a permanent support structure either. It may be that the answer is that you combine your ideas into one transport. Think of it as a public transport that takes either a large number of people or a small number of people on a journey under the ice, boring as it goes. The second option is to think of it as a vehicles that momentarily turns ice into water and 'swims' through. Using heat or another method. The water would re-freeze behind the vehicle.

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  2. Alan Postings21 December 2017 at 15:30

    If you can find it, watch the film 'The Core' (2003). It's a very cheesy and silly movie in which a group of people drill to the Earth's core. The central premise is that the 'craft' super-heat's the rock in to molten lava and then 'swims' through. It's a silly but practical piece of movie science.

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  3. Alan Postings22 December 2017 at 06:56

    Take a look at the link below. This is an early design for the Gungan Bongo Submarine (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace). The designs for all of those ships are 'fish and water flow'.

    Early design:
    http://www.starwarsfans.cn/misc/databank/bongo_bts_bg.jpg

    Gungan Submarine:
    https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/open-uri20150608-27674-1eoit78_5e2120f7.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1280%2C875

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