Racing in Space

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2005-11-14 01:05pm

I'm trying to come up with all of the possible ideas for futuristic racing in one-man spacecraft, actually both in space and on planets:

1. Racing through a manmade debris field (compares skill, maneuverability)

2. Racing near a zone with strong graviational effects (near planets' fields?)

3. F-Zero/Wipeout styled racing (hovering over a track)

Are there any other possible ways to race with spacecraft?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-11-14 03:15pm

Drag racing, AKA see who can build the biggest, highest specific impulse propulsion system and try to achieve a significant fraction of c.

Glimmervoid · Post by **Glimmervoid** » 2005-11-14 03:22pm

Scrapheap extreme (Junkyard wars to you from the USA). Two teams in space suits and a single orbital rubbish dump.

Tasks for episodes.

Sun diving- who can build a ship to dive nearest the sun and return.

And I can’t really think of much else other than races with use X source of power.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-11-14 03:53pm

Racing with a solar sail and nothing but a space suit ( one with good instruments of course ).

Post by **Surlethe** » 2005-11-14 04:15pm

Perhaps some extreme versions of the races which test AI skills: e.g., racing through a thick debris field on a mouse-sized spaceship.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-11-14 06:15pm

If you plan to have lots of kickass dodging maneuvers, make your craft small, and please, put it in some sort of atmosphere.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-11-14 10:15pm

wolveraptor wrote:If you plan to have lots of kickass dodging maneuvers, make your craft small, and please, put it in some sort of atmosphere.

Glider races in Saturn's atmosphere ? Do it from one floating platform to another, perhaps around floating obstacles. For real fun, sharpen the wings and let the racers try to cut each other down.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-11-14 11:55pm

Solar-flare surfing. Bar none, that's the best extreme sport for the new millennium.

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2005-11-15 10:17am

No Racing through broken moons to an gas giant's astriod belt will rule the late 2200's

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-11-15 01:08pm

^Except that in space, you can hardly maneuver around asteroids that quickly or easily. Any asteroid-racing ship needs to be small and durable with lots of high-power fuel.

I do like the solar flare surfing idea though. Something else to consider would be races on tiny moons like Phoebos or Demos. Imagine the speed a normal person could attain.