Bit of an old post but i’ve studied this sort of thing and can offer a good explanation. First off you're not escaping gravity in low earth orbit. Astronauts are affected by 90% of the gravity that you would experience on the surface. Earth’s gravity effects space out to much beyond the moons orbit....

A common misconception about Watts is that they are only for electrical measurement when in fact they can be used for measuring multiple types of energy. One watt is equal to 1 joule per second. My laser pointer can continually fire .5 mill joules or .5 mill watts (EM energy). The eletrical draw is ...

I'll take your word for it on the hydrogen thing. But to orbit the earth your have to reach orbital speeds otherwise gravity will pull you back. Your not leaving gravity's influence your just going so fast you basically fall toward the earth and miss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_Cannon....

Yeah debating lifesupports easier. The issue with a mobile suit is you would need propellant and above 50 to 100 thousand feet you cant cheat and super heat the air anymore. You need real propellant to reach orbital speeds. I read somewhere that a Zaku has 30 seconds of propellant and a Dom has 90 s...

I wasn't saying you specifically were wrong for suggesting that they only need 4 hours of endurance I was replying to the thread in general. I actually enjoy your posts as they make since. Human breathe air, in this 100% oxygen or 21% won't make a different, the same volume would be used and the maj...

Ok I can see you saying normal mobile suits don't need extensive life support systems. As there not in space for more than a few hours. Now they would need a margin of safety incase of suit disablement. So I could see them providing 24 hours of life support because thats a lot easier than you think....

Freedom and the other nuke suits would survive a stampeder shot because the fuel in their reactors is only enriched by 5% or so. For a nuclear weapon to work you need an enrichment of 90 to 95%. thats why nuclear power plants can't explode in a nuclear reaction, and before you mention it Chernobyl w...

As far as the gn drive goes the idea that its similar to that real world laser craft is incorrect. the laser craft is propelled by the laser exploding the air when its reflected off of the craft which the craft uses to propel its self and keeps it spinning to stay stable. the GN drive looks non-Newt...

Its more than likely the same cable they use to charge the suit with and the reason it stays connected is to provide power to the suit till it launches. i don't know about gundam but in real life most military equipment has a warm up period some times as long as 15 minutes (not maniditory but highly...

I always figured they used waste reactor heat to vaporise air to generate thrust in the atmosphere and if they needed extra thrust dump some form of propellent into the vaporising air for more thrust. I started thinking about it after watching wing and noticed that early in the series when the mechs...

Well metals are strong because the bonds that holds the atoms together are strong. Maybe PSA works because the figured out if you apply power at the right frequency in the metal the strength bonds increases several orders of magitute. Strike and the other PSA equipped suits are probably made out of ...

Sounds like a neat idea just take a saber add a largish thruster to it then a bunch of RCS thrusters for fine control. Or just strap on a saber to normal bits and do fly by attacks. Pilot would have to know how to sword fight but since its all mental control and not him pushing buttons the reaction ...

I'm thinking the whole thing is PS except shields and the color doesn't change because its set to change the same color as its normally colored. I also doubt the Dragoons/Bits use PS when when their deployed. the shields wouldn't need it because their hardend metal with Beam coating an appear to be ...

Those outputs are peak power loads. A watt is a measure of power per second. So said mecha reactor is able to produce 2020KW every sec. Now the beam rifle isn't using just raw electricity to fire the beam. The beam is a mega particle beam that does enough damage to equal 5.7 megawatts of power. A Wa...