Posts by Samuel
Cloud Nine is the name given by Buckminster Fuller to his proposed tensegrity sphere airborne habitats. The principle is simple and the physics seem to be sound. For a sphere, as its radius is ...
We can rebuild him. We have the budget... but do we have the technology? In the process of reviewing the proposed enhancements for the Six Billion Dollar Man, such as improved oxygen use, the fol...
We can rebuild him. We have the budget... but do we have the technology? In the process of reviewing the proposed enhancements for the Six Billion Dollar Man the following was discovered: Enh...
Once the geography of the world is designed, it needs a planetary system to inhabit. But how should that solar system look? The only constraint is that the system needs the new world to be placed i...
It's different for every person. There won't be any guaranteed method that operates on human psychology (without magic). If you keep them for long enough then one effect might be Stockholm Syndro...
I'm curious what the gravity would be like on an infinite area flat world. The plane of the world would have some finite depth but be infinite in all cardinal directions. This is, in effect, a Mine...
A couple of guys from the University of Colorado created a video simulating what it would look like to fall into a black hole, including passing the event horizon. They have several other simulatio...
Near a planet. A planet's orbital path will provide a clean bit of space, a star for energy, a way for people to reference the location, and other minor benefits. Put your city in very high orbit ...