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Space station maglev junction design
I'm designing a city building game in a huge 3D (without any notion of "top" or "bottom") space station (or rather, a space city). There are various functional buildings (vertices) ...
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How to increase the structural integrity of comets (for the purpose of moving them)?
Suppose there is a comet of radius 500m made of mostly ice, with the rest being rock, dust, and other frozen gases. The comet is being hollowed out in order to use the water as reaction mass (giving ...
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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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Why would space traders pick up and offload their goods from an orbiting platform rather than direct to the planet?
I'm outlining some ideas for a game I'd like to write, that at its core is about interplanetary space-trading (amongst other things, but that's not relevant to the question).
For project-scope reasons ...
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Hypothetical Material used to construct shell for (this) shell world
Hypothetical materials used to construct (this) shell world
As there are multiple definitions for shell world, this needs some clarification. In this case, a shell world refers to a body with the ...
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Feudal-technology space humans - how can they generate mechanical energy?
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I'm working on an admittedly silly sounding setting. Technologically advanced space fairing humans become stranded on a ring of asteroids in orbit around a large planet. They have ...
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What would be the dimensions of an orbital ring space station built around Deimos (the Martian moon)?
To be more specific, What radius would enable a ring-shaped space station to stably spin around Deimos and provide its occupants with rotational gravity?
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All Conditions Weapon Platforms? [closed]
Basically, how to make modern weapon systems, specifically, tanks and planes, work in all environments.
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I'm currently putting together a role-play setting, which is fair high tech. The ...
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How to design an organic heat-shield?
When they started dropping from the skies.. or no, they landed. They were so similar to us, yet so different. Like nothing we would've ever designed or created - but so much like everything
Eyewitness ...
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How to improve TCP/IP for an interplanetary WAN?
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It is the near future. After a major world war and limited nuclear exchange, the nations of Earth have consolidated into a few blocs. The threat of further war and the cumulative damage to ...
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Could we use telescopes and mirrors in space to see crime in the past via analog?
Could a perfect mirror/s be made to reflect one side of the Earth from the edge of the solar system and viewed with an optical or radio telescope that is in orbit?
The targeting mirrors and telescope ...
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Reality of glass (or some sort of transparent composite) windows on spaceships
In the relatively realistic (hopefully), near future, scifi book I am writing I am at a point where I am describing the observation deck of a large ship belonging to a wealthy "business man" (see ...
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What to do with all the heat in a Dyson Sphere?
In the wake of this, my answer to this question about where to put a Dyson Sphere an apparent issue came up. And it needs some good resolution:
What are we going to do with all that heat the system ...
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What distinction could there be between space torpedoes and space missiles?
In the game "Stelaris" torpedoes and missiles are different categories of weapon. Presumably they wanted to include numerous kinds of weapons for the player to chose from. These weapons are all ...
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Habitable space bridge?
In my other question "Is it possible to build a bridge between planets?" several concepts of interplanetary bridges were formed. What I would now like to know is, are any of the proposed bridges able ...
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