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    Thread: Rewrite to Starbooster article
Post: RE: Rewrite to Starbooster article

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-26-2024, 12:01 AM) -- Re copies of Beech's work - I just ordered the book on Amazon, should get here in early Feb. Not sure exactly when I'll have time to read it (lots of things...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 5 84 02-02-2024, 09:58 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Medius (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4902eb14ca7bc)has this sentence: but a significant fraction of this matter is converted into exotic energy for the construction of wormholes and other space-...
Tardigrada Website and Content Issues 652 6,486 01-27-2024, 11:14 AM
    Thread: Rewrite to Starbooster article
Post: RE: Rewrite to Starbooster article

Worldtree Wrote: (01-19-2024, 09:45 PM) -- There might be some connections you could make with Nicoll Dyson beams? Or the expansion about Nicoll Dyson beam infrastructure for construction purposes co...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 5 84 01-25-2024, 08:41 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Just noticed an unnecessary word in Streyas (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f6d4da23008): There is with no size difference between the sexes. EDIT: Also, a sentence in Security Bush (https://or...
Tardigrada Website and Content Issues 652 6,486 01-20-2024, 02:20 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

These aren't typos as such, but: The Aroostai (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/45f98d8a88efe)article says "They are unique among terragens in that culturally and individually they are highly noma...
Tardigrada Website and Content Issues 652 6,486 01-20-2024, 09:54 AM
    Thread: Rewrite to Starbooster article
Post: Rewrite to Starbooster article

The Starbooster (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47897efc7129a) article is currently about a simple concept: reflect some of a star's light onto itself with polar reflectors, heating up the outer...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 5 84 01-19-2024, 09:06 PM
    Thread: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft
Post: RE: Vacuum Gardens 1st draft

Quote: -- These structures may be relatively small and used primarily as solar shades to protect the central bud in highly irradiated environments, or may be extremely large and utilized to reflect...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 25 499 01-14-2024, 07:26 PM
    Thread: Ultratech Economics (article rewrite)
Post: RE: Ultratech Economics (article rewrite)

Avengium Wrote: (01-07-2024, 04:52 AM) -- These economies can be both on post-labor and ones requiring labor depending on the resource alocation, culture, government and other conditions. -- allocati...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 19 244 01-07-2024, 05:58 PM
    Thread: Heartland (expansion/rewrite)
Post: RE: Heartland (expansion/rewrite)

Just noticed a typo: . I assume this should be a link to the Mass-Stream Technology article (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47e1bb1fc898c).
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 46 798 01-03-2024, 07:07 PM
    Thread: Caerwactod
Post: RE: Caerwactod

A system-wide vacuum ecosystem is quite original. Here are my thoughts and suggestions. Each ring orbits as a slightly different angles Each ring orbits at slightly different angles Ionotrophic...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 16 351 12-26-2023, 03:46 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Thanks for putting up this article. I did notice a couple of typos: "altering its speed" is missing a full stop at the end. "2 or about 6.28 times" - should be 2π at the start. Drashner1 Wro...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-23-2023, 07:44 AM
    Thread: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion
Post: RE: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion

Here's a basic description of the q-drive for OA. I'm not sure whether this should be its own article or an addition to the Plasma Magnet Drive article. Quote: -- A q-drive is a method of prop...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 44 656 12-22-2023, 08:20 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-20-2023, 12:58 PM) -- Suggested wordsmithing and feedback below... A general suggestion - this device would also work for changing a spacecrafts trajectory around a solar syst...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-21-2023, 08:05 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Based on the feedback, here's my second draft: [image title]A skywheel is a rotating ring that assists surface-to-orbit transport https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/attachment.php?aid=3081 First c...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-17-2023, 12:29 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-14-2023, 10:51 PM) -- Tardigrada Wrote: (12-14-2023, 07:53 PM) -- I'm not clear on why this would be less advanced than the rotovator. As you point out in an earlier post, it co...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-16-2023, 10:56 AM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-14-2023, 12:19 AM) -- Spiffy! It sounds like we've got the core ideas that this would be a more massive, more advanced system than a bolo (but less advanced, less massive tha...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-14-2023, 07:53 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

stevebowers Wrote: (12-11-2023, 08:11 PM) -- Carousel? Big Wheel? Ferris lifter? Note that rotavators and 'Ferris lifters' would not generally be used for payloads coming into the atmosphere; these ...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-13-2023, 07:38 PM
    Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: RE: Capture-ejector rim

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-09-2023, 12:26 AM) -- This also sounds similar to the concept of a bolo satellite which is a smaller/less massive/lower tech version of a rotovator. - LINK (https://en.wikipedia....
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-11-2023, 06:12 PM
  -Published In The EG Thread: Capture-ejector rim
Post: Capture-ejector rim

https://i.imgur.com/LvFg0HU.png This is a little-known idea for surface-to-orbit transport (and orbit-to-surface transport). I came across it in this 2012 paper that compares various ideas (https:/...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 39 333 12-08-2023, 07:39 PM
    Thread: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion
Post: RE: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion

Drashner1 Wrote: (12-03-2023, 01:04 AM) -- Neat! Perhaps we can work this into the early timeline as a probe mission - perhaps not so recent as the paper describes, but these kinds of opportunities h...
Tardigrada Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 44 656 12-05-2023, 08:29 PM