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    Thread: Inteplanetary age Jupiter colonization - Irregular satellites?
Post: Inteplanetary age Jupiter colonization - Irregular...

I noticed that most EG articles focus mainly on the large moons of Jupiter. What about the small irregular satellites though? There's quite a lot of them, they would be easy to extract materials from ...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 3 57 09-08-2016, 09:09 AM
    Thread: Proxima Centauri b
Post: RE: Proxima Centauri b

I think a significant factor for habitability would be how volcanically active it is, if we consider the snowball earth episodes. If it is in a 3:2 or 5:2 resonance and was mostly covered by oceans...
Boson Collider Real Life But OA Relevant 17 39,675 09-06-2016, 09:31 AM
    Thread: Using a laser pointer to confuse a kitten
Post: RE: Using a laser pointer to confuse a kitten

I could imagine some clever pranks as well. Like giving an emperor _actual_ invisible clothes. Or using clarketech to double the size of a modo's flat without changing exterior dimensions. Or hollowin...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 10 183 05-13-2016, 07:30 AM
    Thread: Using a laser pointer to confuse a kitten
Post: Using a laser pointer to confuse a kitten

So, while using a laser pointer to confuse my cat, I've been thinking. Some transapients would clearly find it just as adorable to see modos or lesser transapients thoroughly confused by something tha...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 10 183 04-24-2016, 03:01 AM
    Thread: What would it take to break OA?
Post: RE: What would it take to break OA?

Wormholes not working like they do in OA would likely change quite a lot. Either in the sense of Wormholes being proven impossible by some new theorem, or of wormholes allowing time travel. Time trave...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 27 484 03-16-2016, 01:40 AM
    Thread: Every Country Divided (or "nation states are so last millennium")
Post: RE: Every Country Divided (or "nation states are s...

OTOH(in no particular order): *Increasinly international companies moving to wherever they can get a lower level of government control. High corporate taxes? Merge with a small overseas company. Re...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 14 214 03-13-2016, 05:56 AM
    Thread: rocket equation analogs
Post: rocket equation analogs

A while ago, I stumbled upon a simple but fairly useful result, which I felt that people here may be interested in. For a variable Isp rocket running at constant power and constant acceleration, th...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 0 37 05-28-2015, 05:56 AM
    Thread: Electrodeless Lorentz Force thrusters
Post: Electrodeless Lorentz Force thrusters

http://msnwllc.com/Papers/ELF_IEPC-2009-265.pdf MSNW is probably better known for their fusion efforts, but the thruster above is very versatile and it's existence probably has more consequences fo...
Boson Collider Real Life But OA Relevant 1 6,521 02-13-2015, 11:15 PM
    Thread: Post scarcity: second order effects
Post: RE: Post scarcity: second order effects

The "real" in "real GDP growth" means inflation is already accounted for. Scarce things like well-situated land stay expensive since they are scarce. Manufactured goods such as say cars, ships, or ...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 42 681 11-26-2014, 12:48 PM
    Thread: Post scarcity: second order effects
Post: RE: Post scarcity: second order effects

This is an interesting train of thought. For example, even if launch costs actually stayed as high as they are now, at 2% real GDP growth per capita we have 1.02^700 = 1 000 000. So in 700 years, we c...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 42 681 11-26-2014, 12:00 AM
    Thread: Interplanetary travel
Post: RE: Interplanetary travel

Rynn Wrote: (11-02-2014, 06:03 AM) -- Cost of something like this would be very cheap IMO, regardless of economy type. The technologies of interplanetary travel are ancient by the late setting. Regar...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 37 449 11-02-2014, 09:46 AM
    Thread: The Early Solar System
Post: RE: The Early Solar System

It depends on how much infrastructure you assume. Tethers become a very strong option especially when you consider using them in less explored ways such as sliding along them. I'm thinking along the l...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 9 144 10-18-2014, 02:13 PM
    Thread: travel in the Terragen Sphere
Post: RE: travel in the Terragen Sphere

It would cancel out the 4.92 ratio. For large delta-v's The ratio is shifted towards absoultely humongous amounts of reaction mass, which you have to cut off at some point in a practical design by usi...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 40 557 10-18-2014, 01:34 PM
    Thread: travel in the Terragen Sphere
Post: RE: travel in the Terragen Sphere

The MR = ~4.92 optimum has a number of assumptions behind it. I derived it myself a while ago on NSF after a discussion on hafnium nuclear batteries and the like. The basic assumptions are: 1) dry ma...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 40 557 10-18-2014, 01:06 PM
    Thread: Low-Altitude Starship Flight?
Post: RE: Low-Altitude Starship Flight?

I don't think you'd need any fancy vaccum baloon technology all that much either. A helium filled baloon needs a mass of helium equal to roughly 14% of the mass lifted. Though if you want to give a la...
Boson Collider General Setting Discussion 7 97 10-03-2014, 07:33 AM