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Q&A How would an interstellar spaceship's speedometer work if everything else is moving?

12 answers  ·  posted almost 6 years ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Avoiding Incidental Ion Drive damage to Following Vehicles?

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by dmckee‭

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

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by MrKred‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by wizzwizz4‭

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

8 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by o0'.‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by o0'.‭

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Q&A Would Alcubierre Drive Technology Allow for Artificial Event Horizons?

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by FlyingLemmingSoup‭

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Q&A Alcubierre Drive without FTL?

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Tim McClelland‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Tim McClelland‭

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Q&A Cylindrical radiators on spacecraft?

2 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by zertofi‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by zertofi‭

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

7 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Topcode‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Topcode‭

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Q&A The economics of laser sails vs fusion rockets

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Adam Reynolds‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Adam Reynolds‭

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

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Space_Cadet‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Space_Cadet‭

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

7 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Niobium_Sage‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Niobium_Sage‭

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

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by MrKred‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by MrKred‭

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

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by In the name of the story‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by In the name of the story‭

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

36 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by LukeN‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by LukeN‭

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

2 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Niobium_Sage‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Niobium_Sage‭

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

12 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by user6760‭

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

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Udon Nomaneim‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Udon Nomaneim‭

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Q&A What FTL models are appropriate given my constraints?

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by John O‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by John O‭

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

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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

12 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Faz‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Faz‭

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Q&A Building a spaceship alone in the wilderness

11 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by TCC‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by TCC‭

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

3 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by DWKraus‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by DWKraus‭

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Q&A Building an interstellar starship during transit

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Adam Reynolds‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Adam Reynolds‭

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Q&A Would near-lightspeed spaceships have an aerodynamic shape?

9 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Anixx‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Anixx‭

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

6 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by user6760‭

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

7 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Primordial‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Primordial‭

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

13 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭

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

9 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by user6760‭

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Q&A What are some ways to hide a planet?

11 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Primordial‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Primordial‭

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Q&A Relativity, Time Dilation and multiple reference frames

3 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Budders‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Budders‭

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

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Jem‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Jem‭

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

27 answers  ·  posted over 3 years ago by PStag‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by PStag‭

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

6 answers  ·  posted almost 5 years ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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  ·  posted over 1 year ago by ZarHakkar‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by ZarHakkar‭

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Q&A How quickly could a spaceborne missile accelerate?

6 answers  ·  posted almost 5 years ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A Observing a planet without contaminating it in anyway?

2 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by DT Cooper‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by DT Cooper‭

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

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by WhittlesJr‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by WhittlesJr‭

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

7 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by LukasExemplar‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by LukasExemplar‭

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

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Davi‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Davi‭

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

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Richard Smith‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Richard Smith‭

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Q&A Would it be more efficient to build fleets in orbit?

9 answers  ·  posted almost 3 years ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Inhabiting Mars versus going straight for a Dyson swarm

6 answers  ·  posted over 2 years ago by Rohit Pandey‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Rohit Pandey‭

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Q&A Perfect centrifuge crew quarters for a interstellar spaceship?

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Borbman‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Borbman‭

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

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by marmel‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by marmel‭

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

4 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by Plutian‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Plutian‭

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Q&A What would people on multi-generational ships eat?

5 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by happyhacker‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by happyhacker‭

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Q&A Designing a biological drop pod?

3 answers  ·  posted over 1 year ago by System‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by System‭

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

1 answer  ·  posted over 1 year ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Low-efficiency fusion propulsion?

2 answers  ·  posted over 2 years ago by Jake‭  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by Jake‭

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