https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2027.rssNew Posts Tagged 'space' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2023-02-10T14:26:14Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/279296Is it realistic to see satellites moving across the sky centuries after humans stopped space activity?celtschkhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/80562020-11-17T18:11:34Z2023-02-10T14:26:14Z<p>After an age of highly developed technology, including many different satellites in various Earth orbits, humanity loses the technology needed to control those satellites. After many centuries, ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/287511What are Some House Games for Free Fall?James McLellanhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/567002022-11-30T17:42:51Z2022-12-01T18:32:30Z<p>Living in space can be boring. What are some good home games for people living and working in free fall?</p>
<p>I thought of a few -</p>
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<li><strong>Bocce</strong> : in this variant the ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/215363How would an interstellar spaceship's speedometer work if everything else is moving?user6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502015-11-11T07:26:46Z2022-11-25T11:39:59Z<p>A speedometer is a gauge or device used for measuring instantaneous speed of moving vehicle roughly speaking, so for example the reading shown on the speedometer of a car parked at road side dis...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/236597Exploration of a 50 mile high mountainGreenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/69632017-11-03T14:59:57Z2021-05-21T09:30:27Z<p>My friends and I are building a world with a 50 mile high volcano on it. The mountain is the result of some bored god deciding to play a joke on everyone. Or, some other god got angry and decid...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/280613Centripetal Burn in OrbitJosh Hyatthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/536292021-01-30T18:10:19Z2021-02-05T15:31:44Z<p>Imagine a spacecraft in a highly eccentric orbit. Say the craft burns at periapsis towards the planet such that its orbital eccentricity does not change and the craft's periapsis moves with the ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/279502Exploration of a 50 mile high mountainGreenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/530432020-11-24T18:45:16Z2020-11-24T19:20:49Z<p>My friends and I are building a world with a 50 mile high volcano on it. The mountain is the result of some bored god deciding to play a joke on everyone. Or, some other god got angry and decid...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263504Can a galaxy be formed from a black hole?01e5Dkhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/528002020-05-29T14:32:58Z2020-05-29T16:33:56Z<p>I'm writing creative text and I'm curious to know, just as possibility, can a galaxy by any chance be formed out of a black hole?</p>
https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263441Could special relativity be caused by aliens jamming the Solar System?o0'.https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/216952020-05-27T06:42:20Z2020-05-28T16:28:29Z<p>A federation of alien spacefaring nations is doing basically the opposite of prime directive: they are jamming the Solar System, preventing us from leaving it.</p>
<p>They are doing so by placi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263349Is this a reasonable way to enforce a ban on exotic weapons in an interstellar setting?TheDyingOfLighthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/432232020-05-23T07:36:16Z2020-05-23T18:31:40Z<p>In the late 23rd century certain groups of mankind stared down the barrel of what may be possible in the future: cross galactic relativistic kill missile storms, gamma-ray Dyson Beams, Kugelblit...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263268Could aliens from beyond the singularity of a rotating black hole survive and colonise regions of a normal universe?Ichthys Kinghttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/448042020-05-19T22:14:33Z2020-05-19T23:35:01Z<p>Would it be possible for aliens that originated and evolved in a planetary system beyond the ring singularity of a rotating black hole to send individuals out into a normal universe to colonise ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263101Alcubierre Drive without FTL?Tim McClellandhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/409972020-05-11T17:19:21Z2020-05-19T17:04:43Z<p>Would the principles at work in the theoretical Alcubierre warp drive apply to a slower-than-light starship? I'm building a setting in which FTL communication and travel is impossible, (due to ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262396Cylindrical radiators on spacecraft?zertofihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/422402020-04-18T07:41:09Z2020-05-19T14:49:35Z<p>Having your radiators tactically protected from enemy fire by the armor shape of your space warship is nice, but having a regular one or double-sided radiators is still a vulnerability. Other co...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263194Most Likely Way to Protect Against Infectious Disease When Visiting Other Planets?Ralph Boltonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/320712020-05-15T20:35:11Z2020-05-16T22:58:28Z<p>In various science fiction works, we see our plucky heroes beaming down to, or flying down to planets other than their own. They meet with the inhabitants there, be they human or otherwise and t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263047Is radar better than visible light in deep space?Willkhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/401732020-05-09T15:31:26Z2020-05-12T16:37:00Z<p>On the earths surface, radar is pretty sweet. It apparently penetrates the atmosphere well and bounces back and can be detected. I think this has to do with the wavelengths absorbed by our atm...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263076How would the Politburo respond to Project A119?Jemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446282020-05-10T12:46:03Z2020-05-11T18:29:12Z<p>In 1958 the United States Air Force considered a mission to detonate a nuclear device on the surface of the Moon. The endeavour was framed as a booster to American public morale in the wake of t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263012How can a massive ship be partially destroyed in reentry, but have the top part still intact?Topcodehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447422020-05-08T14:49:09Z2020-05-11T10:20:51Z<p>In my world a giant ship attempts to land on a planet, sadly it fails. Fortunately the top half is intact but the bottom is ripped up, holes all over it, basically destroyed except for some luck...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261936The economics of laser sails vs fusion rocketsAdam Reynoldshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/443982020-03-31T19:44:23Z2020-05-10T18:47:30Z<p>What would be the economic trade offs of building fusion powered rockets vs building laser relays across the solar system? What assumptions would you need for each one of these to be the superio...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263044Artificial oxygen oasis in an otherwise CO2 atmosphereAnixxhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/17812020-05-09T13:41:00Z2020-05-10T18:36:34Z<p>I wonder if it is possible to install artificial equipment that would exhaust oxygen into air in otherwise CO2 atmosphere so that locally people could breath in open air without any kind of tent...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262944Space station scenario feasibilityPraharahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/448322020-05-06T17:20:57Z2020-05-08T19:41:24Z<p>I have settings with orbital colonies around the earth. First off my idea is, if it is not profitable we would not fund it en masse. Therefore I came up with the idea that in the future we disco...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262847Would it make sense to send potential human colonists on the initial manned expedition to a habitable, Earth-like planet?Space_Cadethttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/442772020-05-03T21:03:27Z2020-05-04T15:31:14Z<p>In the near future, humanity has spread out across the Solar System. A new planet is discovered, let's say 30 light years away, that shows it to be Earth-like and could harbor Earth life without...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262782Where would a technologically advanced group of people forced into space by a calamity obtain water from?Niobium_Sagehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/434302020-04-30T23:17:05Z2020-05-01T21:53:00Z<p>The fleet in my setting are forced to leave the planet due to a volatile virus, and leave in pre-prepared spacefaring vessels capable of transporting ten million people per ship. The ships have ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262773What percentage of stars would need to become Shkadov thrusters to move the whole galaxy?RandySavagehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/443002020-04-30T14:29:43Z2020-05-01T04:26:04Z<p>The advanced civilization in my story is trying to reach as many galaxies as possible in the next few billions years before the expansion of space has sent those galaxies permanently out of reac...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262771Would would occur if a person travelled from a wormhole in flat empty space, to one on Earth?MrKredhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447622020-04-30T07:33:17Z2020-04-30T23:04:33Z<p>We are using a <a href="http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/refael/league/thorne-morris.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Morris-Throne Wormhole Metric</a>. Let's presume the throat of this wormhole (in <a ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262764What is the force of impact for a failing space elevator given the following conditions?MUSE-42https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446062020-04-30T01:18:31Z2020-04-30T23:01:50Z<p>The local sapient species on a relatively Earthlike planet has constructed a space elevator. It is anchored along the equator. Due to unfortunate circumstances (and potentially divine interventi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261909How would one detect a black hole when there are no more light sources for it to refract?In the name of the storyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446172020-03-30T09:23:22Z2020-04-30T22:26:41Z<p>The universe as we know it has ended. The concept of "natural" illumination ended when the last red dwarves and quasars died out. Now, only brown dwarves and blackholes dot the empty void that w...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262625Why would a sleeper ship be designed to only wake one person in case of emergency?Joe Bloggshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/375972020-04-24T15:15:39Z2020-04-30T05:40:09Z<p>Starliners are huge colony ships. They carry enough equipment, building materials, embryos, colonists and nutrient rich rations to permanently establish a sizeable colony on a far-flung world. A...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262641What might cause a civilization to be unable to colonize a large moon but live in space stations around it instead?Topcodehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447422020-04-24T21:05:01Z2020-04-28T09:21:27Z<p>In my world a moon is reached and colonised but only in space stations for a long time. They gain the ability to reach the surface and then story happens. It needs to be something that can be by...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262721What laws of physics would need to be broken in order to travel in space faster?LukeNhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/366772020-04-27T18:17:04Z2020-04-27T23:06:42Z<p>I have a spaceship which I want to have travel very quickly around a system like our own solar system -- let's say about 10 million miles per minute, which would go from Mars to Earth in ~15 min...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262676Would it be possible to build numerous spaceships that could transport 10 million people in the late 2100's?Niobium_Sagehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/434302020-04-26T01:57:35Z2020-04-27T03:16:31Z<p>The crafts would have to contain large farms in order to sustain the immense amount of people, and they'd obviously have to be large and spacious to have good living conditions. I did some resea...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261855Binary Star System Build - Alpha Centauriuser72655https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446382020-03-27T03:30:22Z2020-04-26T21:04:05Z<p>I'm not sure if this site or Astronomy would be better, but I figured I would try here instead. I am
attempting to create a [semi]plausible star system in Alpha Centauri for a series. The syste...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262509Despite almost zero energy consumption why does my spaceship scheduled cryostasis in shifts?user6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502020-04-22T04:58:15Z2020-04-24T20:28:14Z<p>In the distant future a breakthrough in cryostasis technology can put healthy people into frozen state so that all metabolism halts and cells never age a bit, the spaceship is carrying them acro...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262425Question about Kessler syndromeDashane Du Plessishttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/448002020-04-20T00:59:47Z2020-04-22T20:08:15Z<p>I'm writing a novel set in a <em>post</em> post-apocalyptic world, where society on Earth collapsed a long time ago and has rebuilt itself by the time the novel starts. </p>
<p>I need a reason ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261093Minimal mass of an Earth-like satellite to seriously deter space travel?Udon Nomaneimhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/397882020-03-02T19:18:00Z2020-04-22T15:32:10Z<p>I want to write a story taking place on the natural satellite of a gas giant, with said satellite being massive enough to prevent, or at least strongly deter, space travel, such that the resourc...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262511How to handle transhumanism vs space colonizationAdam Reynoldshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/443982020-04-22T06:09:40Z2020-04-22T12:16:00Z<p>Given the difficulties in doing things like constructing O'Neil cylinders or habitats on places like Mars, is it at all plausible that current humans could ever really colonize anything in space...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262474Human labor required to setup automated mining outpost on faraway planet?Deliriumhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/445442020-04-21T12:54:10Z2020-04-22T04:02:46Z<p>Glossing over the technological implications of interstellar travel, what sort of human labor might still be required in a future where we are capable of setting up nigh-fully automated endeavor...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262462Landing on a new planet in Earth's near future, how long before they can reproduce the technology they came with?Johnhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/448022020-04-20T18:32:33Z2020-04-20T22:38:56Z<p>So given an Earth in our near future, year 2100 or so, where some of our tech has improved to the point where we have robots and the usual sci-fi devices for interfacing with computers.</p>
<p>...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262413Asteroid mining: Good for the environment?Jemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446282020-04-19T12:58:43Z2020-04-20T13:52:22Z<p>What if there was a binding global resolution passed tomorrow mandating that all countries gradually close down their terrestrial resource extraction sites and instead source from asteroid mines...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262366Science of Green Lantern and solid light constructsStrivshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/441662020-04-16T23:06:21Z2020-04-17T05:29:04Z<p>Many know that the Lantern Corps of DC Comics are capable of constructing objects of any shape or size out of hard light using their power ring fueled by their emotions. However, I'm wondering w...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262316What FTL models are appropriate given my constraints?John Ohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/402822020-04-14T18:00:49Z2020-04-15T22:49:35Z<p>I'd like to have faster-than-light travel (and communications) be an late-game option for a video game I am working on. The extent of the playable universe is approximately 4 million light years...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262303Would sound shifts be severe enough for two dialects to be mutually unintelligible after 400 years of no verbal contact?galactic_analyzerhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/445642020-04-14T00:04:10Z2020-04-14T00:33:36Z<p>A group of English-speaking settlers travel to the Earth-like exoplanet of Rataan, which is 5 light years away. They board the generation ship <em>Genesis</em> that will reach Rataan in 200 year...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262258How can I estimate the maximum mass that can be safely handled in low to no g?Joe Bloggshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/375972020-04-12T09:31:32Z2020-04-13T13:03:34Z<p>Many countries, authorities and companies have the concept of a maximum weight limit for manual handling, both to protect their workers and to protect themselves from lawsuits.</p>
<p>Interstel...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262208How did aliens on a habitable planet hide themselves during the recon and scouting stage by human colonists?Fazhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/441872020-04-09T22:08:29Z2020-04-12T16:46:28Z<p>We've found a habitable planet orbiting a red dwarf star some light years away and conditions are Earth-like enough that a colonization project was initiated. Before any humans landed on the pla...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262226Could co-orbital planets also be double planets?Axionhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/416042020-04-10T16:33:57Z2020-04-11T04:10:04Z<p>Double or binary planets are a really cool science fiction idea. A second Earth hanging ominously in the sky. Co-orbital or trojan planets are also interesting in that you have them on more or l...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262220Solar expansion and habitabilityDeehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447792020-04-10T12:45:48Z2020-04-10T17:10:17Z<p>Is there a feasible setup where the Sun has expanded enough to make the Earth uninhabitable, but some of the other rocky bodies in our solar system (past Earth) become more reasonable colonisati...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262151Building a spaceship alone in the wildernessTCChttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447722020-04-07T16:03:24Z2020-04-10T15:16:36Z<p>I am currently working on a character backstory for somebody whose fictional character gets sent back in time an era before his species existed (essentially to bronze-age times or even earlier, ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262165How close an orbit could you get to Earth with a planet-sized object/ship without severely disrupting Earth's orbit?DWKraushttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447632020-04-07T23:10:23Z2020-04-08T15:13:15Z<p>My idea involves an alien spaceship inside a roughly Earth to Mars sized/massed planet, but the whole planet is displaced when the drive is activated. If you wanted to travel back to our solar s...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262085I'm formulating a planet that has silver dust on its surface, and ideally has rivers of mercury flowing on it, possible? Human survival not necessaryRJ0001https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447672020-04-05T12:18:13Z2020-04-05T22:04:04Z<p>I'm new to this and my scientific knowledge is massively lacking in this area (so please take it easy on me!) I'm writing a historical science-fiction novel. Parts of it set in the past (1977) a...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262033can spacecraft heat be 'vented' with entangled particles?Daikaelhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447462020-04-03T03:08:46Z2020-04-03T04:19:06Z<p>Basically, the title. Trying to figure out how reasonable stealth in space would function, and while I have mitigated it, I am looking for methods to improve it. But mainly, is creating a sort o...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261938How do I calculate the total time dilation experienced by an accelerating ship?Starsong67https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447322020-03-31T20:53:56Z2020-03-31T22:59:04Z<p>My advanced human civilisation often has high-acceleration ships travelling at near lightspeed. I know that time dilation would have a significant effect on the time experienced by the crews, bu...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261920Building an interstellar starship during transitAdam Reynoldshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/443982020-03-31T01:12:12Z2020-03-31T19:19:05Z<p>Would it be feasible to have an interstellar vessel be constructed in flight after smaller sections are boosted up to speed? The idea here is about using <a href="http://www.projectrho.com/publi...