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Posts by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Mars as "Earth sister"

Lets pretend that Mars was a bit larger, so the gravity could hold on to the water and possible atmosphere, and then play along with the accidents that happened on earth happened at a similar tact....

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Can a planet with 2/3 Orbital eccentricity sustain life?

On a planet where it is Earth-like, the orbit around the sun is a bit longer than 1 Earth year, and the orbit is on 2/3 eccentricity, but where only the "2" part is inside the Goldilocks zone. In ...

5 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Evergrowing blob

A creature the size of a bacteria has awakened and starts eating, it eats it's own bodyweight everyday, and it never gets smaller (Unless it mates). The creature is hermaphrodite but it needs a com...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Would Hawkings Stellar Drive be possible and would it be effective?

Hawking's radiation emits particles from a black-hole. Lets play with the idea of harnessing a mini black hole in the center of a star-ship. Let alone harnessing the gravity pull to the front and ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Is a planet with only vaporized water atmosphere livable?

Is it possible to have a planet where the atmosphere is mostly water vapor instead of mostly N + O2 with solid ground, so not a gas giant? In the sense - how close to the center star(s) should it ...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Would it be possible to excavate a planet and mine it without indigenous citizens' knowledge?

There is a more strict version of Prime Directive on a subspace traveling Empire. This empire (without the morale codex of the star trek crew, maybe more like Avatar) would like to get the resource...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Returning from ISS, Felix style

Our main character Felixa (female, weight about 70kg) is onboard the ISS (altitude 408 km / 254 miles), when something similar to Gravity happens, and the space station is destroyed. Her assets: ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Is it possible for a planet oddly similar to the ones we have orbiting our sun to make a shield to protect an interstellar space ship?

The situation is bad, human kind have waited to the last minute (literally) with building the huge ship that is supposed to save man kind. The sun goes nova, nothing can stop that but the ship has ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A The effect of a 6 megatonne space ship crashing in to a planet

Follow up question to: How long time would it take for a space hulk to lose orbit? Let's assume that the spaceship crashes into the planet, I used the Impact Calculator to get some result of the c...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Generation ship design - Accommodations

What would be required for a generation space ship to give residents the best possible living situation while still using the least amount of space, given the possibilities to have access to common...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Mapping the far side of the galaxy

Humans got a one time ticket to the other side of the galaxy, traveling $2r$ in just a few days (where $r$ is the distance from earth to the super massive black hole: 28,000 lightyears) The stars ...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A What is the bit rate of a human brain?

When calculating large values with computers one is using Floating points, when calculating distances this can be a problem. The floating point problem: Eg. In early Kerbal Space Program t...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Proxima Centuri - Traveltime

"Group B" has acquired [Plot-device] and it is able to deliver over time infinite energy of the type needed for the story to work. They decide to place it on the most powerful space engine known t...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Q&A Going slower in worlds where fuel is free or insignificantly cheap

Established rules for the universe: FTL travel exists with special drives, special artificial generated wormhole like tunnels where space ships can break the laws of physics. Engines runs hot, bu...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Rigorous Science How long time would it take for a space hulk to lose orbit?

In the Warhammer 40k universe, there are planets where the population hasn't developed so far and are left in the feudal stage, (or the technology has degenerated so much it is back to the point). ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Magic-Mouse‭

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Rigorous Science Would it be possible to make an inescapable planet?

To start with, i know You measure the Kardashev scale from stellar success, but lets say we have a civilization that are vastly advanced compared to us, so they are equivalent to a type 2 civilizat...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Magic-Mouse‭