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Avoiding Incidental Ion Drive damage to Following Vehicles?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by ‭dmckee‭

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What would one experience travelling through an invisible Krasnikov tube, and how much could they be used to cut travel times?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭wizzwizz4‭

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Could special relativity be caused by aliens jamming the Solar System?

8 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭o0'.‭

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Would Alcubierre Drive Technology Allow for Artificial Event Horizons?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭FlyingLemmingSoup‭

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Alcubierre Drive without FTL?

6 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Tim McClelland‭

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Cylindrical radiators on spacecraft?

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭zertofi‭

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How can a massive ship be partially destroyed in reentry, but have the top part still intact?

7 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Topcode‭

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The economics of laser sails vs fusion rockets

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Adam Reynolds‭

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Would it make sense to send potential human colonists on the initial manned expedition to a habitable, Earth-like planet?

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Space_Cadet‭

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Where would a technologically advanced group of people forced into space by a calamity obtain water from?

7 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Niobium_Sage‭

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Would would occur if a person travelled from a wormhole in flat empty space, to one on Earth?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭MrKred‭

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How would one detect a black hole when there are no more light sources for it to refract?

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭In the name of the story‭

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Why would a sleeper ship be designed to only wake one person in case of emergency?

36 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Joe Bloggs‭

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What laws of physics would need to be broken in order to travel in space faster?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭LukeN‭

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Would it be possible to build numerous spaceships that could transport 10 million people in the late 2100's?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Niobium_Sage‭

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Despite almost zero energy consumption why does my spaceship scheduled cryostasis in shifts?

12 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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Minimal mass of an Earth-like satellite to seriously deter space travel?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Udon Nomaneim‭

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What FTL models are appropriate given my constraints?

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭John O‭

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How can I estimate the maximum mass that can be safely handled in low to no g?

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Joe Bloggs‭

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How did aliens on a habitable planet hide themselves during the recon and scouting stage by human colonists?

12 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Faz‭

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Building a spaceship alone in the wilderness

11 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭TCC‭

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How close an orbit could you get to Earth with a planet-sized object/ship without severely disrupting Earth's orbit?

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭DWKraus‭

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Building an interstellar starship during transit

5 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Adam Reynolds‭

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Would near-lightspeed spaceships have an aerodynamic shape?

9 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Anixx‭

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How can space cop arrest the suspicious spacecraft moving at sub-luminal velocity?

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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What would be the maximum distance from which a space ship could physically see a planet?

7 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Primordial‭

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On our way to Mars: how do we do the laundry?

13 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭

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How do you send out SOS in space if there is no absolute coordinate?

9 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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What are some ways to hide a planet?

11 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Primordial‭

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Relativity, Time Dilation and multiple reference frames

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Budders‭

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Fusion- or antimatter-powered propulsion: Which one will we likely develop first?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Jem‭

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How can paleolithic humans colonise the stars without direct help from aliens and still be primitive?

27 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭PStag‭

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How can I explain space travel being accepted and supported in a typical fantasy setting?

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Canina‭

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Of all methods of FTL travel (or as close as one can get to it), what would be the most feasible to have been invented in the next 100 years?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭ZarHakkar‭

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How quickly could a spaceborne missile accelerate?

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Z.Schroeder‭

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Observing a planet without contaminating it in anyway?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭DT Cooper‭

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What are the odds that an alien spaceship entering a low Earth orbit would collide with an orbiting body?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭WhittlesJr‭

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How would aliens abduct an entire nation of millions from a planet?

7 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭LukasExemplar‭

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Would it be possible with current rocketry to go from Earth to Mercury and then come back?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Davi‭

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Why would a spaceship rely on hydroponics instead of algae for food?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Richard Smith‭

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Would it be more efficient to build fleets in orbit?

9 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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Inhabiting Mars versus going straight for a Dyson swarm

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Rohit Pandey‭

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Perfect centrifuge crew quarters for a interstellar spaceship?

4 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Borbman‭

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What would the view from a spaceship traveling through inter-galactic space look like?

1 answer  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭marmel‭

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Are (near) instant data transfers feasible on an intergalactic scale?

4 answers  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭Plutian‭

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What would people on multi-generational ships eat?

5 answers  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭happyhacker‭

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Designing a biological drop pod?

3 answers  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭System‭

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Why don't ejectable fission reactors proliferate if meltdown is still a concern?

1 answer  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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Low-efficiency fusion propulsion?

2 answers  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭Jake‭

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Base on the Moon for interplanetary travel

2 answers  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭Maxim Zabolotskikh‭

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