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Expanding a modular space-station for 100 years
The Mir, ISS, Tiangong, Skylab, the numerous Salyut-missions...Space-stations are one of the most impressive and interesting feats of modern engineering, which in my opinion, makes it even more tragic ...
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How feasible is it for a construction company working 24/7 to superficially cover a (roughly) 2500x2500x500ft quarry and how long would it take?
A construction company has an immense workforce and wants to superficially cover a quarry and retain use of the interior for further and later development. The budget and workforce is immense, with ...
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Cities built of ice and compacted snow on a planet where it never melts?
Picture a planet where it's always winter all year (by that I mean that there are technically no seasons and it's always sub-zero weather) so the colonizers make use of the most abundant materials ...
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The Falling Tower of Babel
In Preventing a word from being spoken, I asked about how to prevent a word from being spoken, and the means I chose was to change humanity so that humans can no longer say the Word.
To that end, I am ...
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Replacing heavy cranes with airships for alien city building? Pros/cons?
We are doing construction on an alien world with unbreathable air
This creates a very big problem for a growing city which needs to expand. Workers cannot go outside safely for long periods.
Goal: ...
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How large can an oceangoing vessel be made within the constraints of Neolithic technology?
Long story short, I have a bunch of folks with Neolithic technology, and they want to build a big ship - preferably, a ship that's as large as they can make it.
How big can these Neolithic folks make ...
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Could extremely tall towers be held up by balloons so that they don't collapse under their own weight?
"Tower" may be a misleading word choice for what I have in mind. My approach to building vertical structures is a bit different, more on that later. There are two main issues that plague ...
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What would an above-ground residential apartment designed to negate the effects of a one-kiloton nuclear surface burst at 500 meters look like?
Exactly what it says on the tin: what would an above-ground residential apartment designed to negate the effects of a one-kiloton nuclear surface burst at 500 meters look like?
NUKEMAP-2 says that the ...
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Restoring or recycling in a post-apocalyptic setting?
I have been wondering what would be more practical in a post apocalyptic setting, trying to restore the ruins of old (like refurbishing what can be restored and rebuilding over what cannot be and ...
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What would be some design features of an international research station built in a perpetual hurricane?
Never mind why there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about a building being built in it.
Let's say that there's a perpetual hurricane that constantly "hovers" in one location - say, over ...
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How much engineered "sand" I would need to build an Orbital Tower that reaches the ISS?
Well, I do know that there are questions about space towers that have already been asnwered, however, none of them with today's technology, such as engineered sand.
"Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - ...
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How much would take and cost to construct a building/tower that reaches space? (with todays technology) [duplicate]
I am aware that there is a concept called "space elevator" that would be a much cheaper and more efficient option of reaching space with a construction (even though we don't have the ...
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Putting locks on a strait between the sea and a large bay to prevent tides
My planet has fairly large tides, with the difference between high and low tide being roughly thirty meters, and the spring high/low tide different being roughly sixty meters.
There is a civilization ...
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Can my preindustrial civilization control an artificial water flow on the scale of the Mississippi?
Extending some of my earlier questions
How to stop a massive canal system from silting up?
Roughly how much water would my desert civilization need every year?
My preindustrial* society needs to ...
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Backyard Planetary Escape: From the Earth to the Moon, the Jeb Kerman way [closed]
A pair of aerospace engineers discovers that the New World Order wants to depopulate Earth by means of starting a nuclear war on the 1st of January of [Enter number between 2025 and 2040]. The elite ...
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