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Are those lights or windows on the side of ships?
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Anazzar
Polaris Space Industries
#1 - 2012-05-26 18:50:11 UTC
Dunno if this has been asked before, was just curious since on some ships they seem out of proportion and oddly placed on others.

Buzzard for example has a cockpit window too the side but then has lots of lights/windows scattered around on the wings and stuff.
Kaylen Vimanis
#2 - 2012-05-26 19:21:02 UTC
Bit of both i think. But bear in mind some windows are really big and some are small like the passenger windows on an airliner.

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Alexylva Paradox
#3 - 2012-05-29 13:09:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Che Biko
Also, it's not a cockpit but a bridge (which is likely unmanned on capsuleer ships).
Fighter and Bomber drones have cockpits (with people in them).

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#4 - 2012-05-29 15:20:09 UTC
Cockpit vs bridge is debatable on frigate-size ships, but I'd argue that most of the little lights are some form of running lights, perhaps highlighting important but to-small-for-our-cameras-to-see facets of the outer hull such as escape pod launch locations, fueling nodes, structurally sound places to lock in docking clamps, etc...

While I could see a few being windows into some kind of observation deck that sits above the main armor layer, I severely doubt any vessel designed to work for extended periods in space (let alone face combat) would want to riddle its armor and hull with tens if not hundreds of structurally weak windows; the obvious exception to the rule are luxury cruise vessels.
Anazzar
Polaris Space Industries
#5 - 2012-05-29 20:13:50 UTC
Esna Pitoojee wrote:
Cockpit vs bridge is debatable on frigate-size ships, but I'd argue that most of the little lights are some form of running lights, perhaps highlighting important but to-small-for-our-cameras-to-see facets of the outer hull such as escape pod launch locations, fueling nodes, structurally sound places to lock in docking clamps, etc...

While I could see a few being windows into some kind of observation deck that sits above the main armor layer, I severely doubt any vessel designed to work for extended periods in space (let alone face combat) would want to riddle its armor and hull with tens if not hundreds of structurally weak windows; the obvious exception to the rule are luxury cruise vessels.


I like this idea and it makes a bit of sense, the lights being some sort of access indicator to panels/areas for engineers conducting repairs or upgrades
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Alexylva Paradox
#6 - 2012-05-31 11:54:42 UTC
Esna Pitoojee wrote:
Cockpit vs bridge is debatable on frigate-size ships[..]

I don't know about that. Cockpits are on planes, bridges are on ships. I don't see where the size matters.

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#7 - 2012-06-05 18:56:40 UTC
Esna Pitoojee wrote:
Cockpit vs bridge is debatable on frigate-size ships, but I'd argue that most of the little lights are some form of running lights, perhaps highlighting important but to-small-for-our-cameras-to-see facets of the outer hull such as escape pod launch locations, fueling nodes, structurally sound places to lock in docking clamps, etc...

While I could see a few being windows into some kind of observation deck that sits above the main armor layer, I severely doubt any vessel designed to work for extended periods in space (let alone face combat) would want to riddle its armor and hull with tens if not hundreds of structurally weak windows; the obvious exception to the rule are luxury cruise vessels.


I remember reading in Templar One about a dropship with a regular material hull, just that it was treated to be transparent/translucid, so not necesarily has to be weak glass.

Also, seeing that the yellow dots are bigger the smaller the ship is, I would go for windows.
Domer Pyle
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#8 - 2012-06-06 09:00:32 UTC
i always thought the bigger dots were windows, and the smaller ones were either smaller windows, or running lights. especially on bigger ships, like the maelstrom or machariel.

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Proteus Maximus
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-06-06 16:56:09 UTC
When you read the word window you think glass or some variation of weak polymer. However far in the future the formula for clear metal alloy is totally conceivable.
View ports..yeas probably a lot of them are.

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#10 - 2012-07-17 19:49:19 UTC
Proteus Maximus wrote:
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#11 - 2012-07-18 15:09:39 UTC
Proteus Maximus wrote:
When you read the word window you think glass or some variation of weak polymer. However far in the future the formula for clear metal alloy is totally conceivable.
View ports..yeas probably a lot of them are.


Some of the lights don't really make sense as either lights nor viewports, but a lot of them could be windows.

As for glass being fragile, that is glass made with traditional methods. Glass is very, very strong, though usually it is very brittle. We already have the science to fix it. (Demetriou et al. 2011)

Demetriou, Marios D. et al. (2011). "A damage-tolerant glass," Nature Materials 10:123-128.