Ash‭

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The idea of "Flat Space", an area of space-time with minimal, preferably zero, gravitational curvature, is an important concept in many Sci-fi universes, often those with "jump-drive" based FTL tra...

3 answers · posted 8y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 8y ago by Ash‭

Question space travel reality-check faster-than-light space-travel light

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Q&A Signal language, how long can we stay in touch?

I'm working on a universe where FTL exists but arrival times can be unpredictable to say the least. On average FTL trips are conducted at 4C but ships can take much longer to arrive than that speed...

6 answers · posted 9y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 9y ago by Ash‭

Question space travel reality-check communication faster-than-light space-travel light science-fiction

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Q&A How short can Milankovitch Cycles be on a world with a stable orbit?

Okay so there's a project I've been thinking about for a long time wherein humans colonise a world where the climate appears warm and benign only to discover that the local climate oscillates from ...

7 answers · posted 9y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 9y ago by Ash‭

Question climate planets orbital-mechanics solar-system

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Q&A Could a sedentary organism develop intelligence, or even sentience?

Similar to Could Plants Develop Sentience? but slightly more general: I'm not interested in plants in particular, but want a more general understanding of the effect of motion on intelligence and v...

17 answers · posted 9y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 9y ago by Ash‭

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Q&A A brighter moon that's harder to see

In honour of the full moon an odd moon question for you all. The idea is to create a situation in which the inhabitants of a world believe utterly that the moon only exists at night. I'd also like...

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Q&A The worlds between, the consequences of instantaneous FTL

For some time I've been working on a universe with non-instantaneous Faster-Than-Light travel, but I've decided to open a new universe with instantaneous travel. So I'm working on the differences t...

13 answers · posted 8y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 8y ago by Ash‭

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Q&A Restricting antimatter - practical rather than legal measures

Antimatter is relatively easy, but heinously expensive, to make using modern technology. I have two universes with the same problem; energy is free and for all practical purposes infinite, this sho...

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Q&A Write once perpetual storage, is such a thing possible?

Is it possible, with modern, or easily foreseeable technology, to build a compact digital data storage device that cannot be erased without removing the data store? The storage in question to be us...

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Q&A Quick solutions to a modern warning placed on the surface of a planet for future generations

In response to Write once perpetual storage, is such a thing possible? Separatrix pointed me at How could an ancient race warn the future in a universally understandable way? and How might modern h...

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Q&A Hulls and hard suits, what actually has heavier armour in space?

I may not have been paying as much attention as perhaps I could but I have the impression that, in fiction and reality, most civilian space habitats, whether ships or stations use a relatively thic...

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Q&A Human response to an existential threat that isn't

This is possibly not quite the right place to ask this question but it's fundamental to the world I'm working on so here it is; if faced with a potent existential threat, in the form of an outside ...

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Q&A Could coral float?

I've been thinking about worlds like Keplar-62e, thought to be covered in deep oceans, and wondering about floating reefs. Could a bio-structure substantially similar to terrestrial coral hold eno...

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Q&A How deep could we bury the world in artifice?

I've been reading a few books lately, principally the Warhammer 40,000 descriptions of Earth and the Night's Dawn Trilogy, and it's got me wondering just how far down we could bury a planet under a...

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Q&A Gravitational flatness, the topography of Lagrange "points"

Just how gravitationally flat are real Lagrange Points? Many classic "jump drives" require "flat space" in order to fire, the classic diagram of Lagrange Points as shown below suggests ridges or pl...

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Q&A So we glassed it, now what?

"Glassing" a planet is a common ultimate tactic in Science Fiction, basically it consists in using high power energy weapons to destroy all life on the planet and reducing the soil and rock of the ...

3 answers · posted 9y ago by Ash‭ · last activity 9y ago by Ash‭

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