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Thread: living among the centaurs
Post: RE: living among the centaurs
| (10-07-2016, 04:50 PM)JoeStrout Wrote: Right, solar would be very hard that far out. I'm assuming nuclear (fission or fusion) power. There's certainly plenty of hydrogen out there for fusion, and ... |
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10-07-2016, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: living among the centaurs
Post: RE: living among the centaurs
| Where's the power coming from? I don't see any solar parasol. Which is what I'd expect to see out there. |
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10-07-2016, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: ball falling in a space colony
Post: RE: ball falling in a space colony
| (09-20-2016, 09:03 AM)JoeStrout Wrote: But unfortunately, that kind of modeling is really hard. You'd have to use CFD simulation, which is very time-consuming (tends to be run on supercomputers to ... |
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William |
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09-23-2016, 11:35 AM |
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Thread: ball falling in a space colony
Post: RE: ball falling in a space colony
| Quote:Finally, note that there is no air here; the ball is falling as in a vacuum. In a real colony, of course, air would apply a force in the direction of the colony's spin, reducing this Coliolis e... |
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William |
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09-20-2016, 08:31 AM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: Hello
| Hello! I'm William. Joe invited us on the Space Settlers yahoo group over here.
In northern California. I've been interested in space exploration and space settlement, ever since I was a kid back in ... |
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10-01-2015, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: cosmic ray protection from Martian atmosphere? ...Nope
Post: RE: cosmic ray protection from Martian atmosphere?...
| (09-29-2015, 01:16 PM)JoeStrout Wrote: Quite a lot. I don't have the figures handy, but if you have High Frontier, you can explore this for yourself: compare radiation in LEO (which is well within ... |
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William |
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09-30-2015, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: cosmic ray protection from Martian atmosphere? ...Nope
Post: RE: cosmic ray protection from Martian atmosphere?...
| (09-29-2015, 10:52 AM)JoeStrout Wrote: Moral of the story: if you're going to live on Mars, be prepared to stay underground (or under a very thick dome) most of the time. Significant surface time w... |
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William |
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09-29-2015, 12:13 PM |
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Thread: Interesting Orbits Throughout the Solar System
Post: RE: Interesting Orbits Throughout the Solar System
| How about near-Earth asteroids? Material already there for making space habitats. |
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William |
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09-20-2015, 09:41 PM |
