Serban Tanasa‭

Location location location On Earth, cities developed along harbors, fords and defensible strong points (forts). These are their space equivalents: Home world start point star port. This Lagrang...

posted 10y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

Eve will eat the world You state: Eve isn't malevolent or benevolent, it's completely uninterested in the real world. Eve's only passions are mathematics and algorithmics. Eve does not have...

posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

The problem with stellar nebulae (mostly dark molecular clouds yes, but even some reflection nebulae) is that they happen to also be stellar nurseries and thus tend to have short-lived supermassive...

posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

Depending on just how far back you go, there was a time the CMB was in the visible spectrum. However, in the era you're talking about, this is not the case, and compared to starlight and the primar...

posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

How do you go about boosting an already-habitable planet's habitability? I want to maximize biomass, hopefully cover the whole planet surface in luxuriant jungles and forests, brimming with insects...

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We like the moon. It's close, you can see your home from there, low gravity well, so you get easy mass drivers to orbit for fleshing out your spacer economy, plus you can do fun things in pools. ...

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There is no genetic engineering allowed, just selected breeding and offspring selection. There is no genome sequencing, imagine medieval technology plus mendelian principles. The laws of heredity a...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

There are a few million cubic miles of water trapped in the ice-caps that line our planet's poles. If all of it were to melt in a matter of a few short years (somehow), London would surely be left ...

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What is the best dinosaur to have as a pet, if the goal is to have it do tricks? It all started as a joke among us, the idle children of the technocratic class that effectively, in all but name, t...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

As we all know, Santa loads his sleigh with gifts for millions of children around the world and sets about distributing them during the night of December 24/25. To make them all fit in his stylish ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

Space exploration is great and amazing, and I want my fictional US government to fund it to the tune of $1 trillion per year, instead of the (comparatively) meager \$17.5 billion it is getting now....

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In the vision of its creators, the Dr. Watson AI would gather multiple live feeds from its insurance buyers, overcoming privacy concerns through friendly advice (I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't ...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

Much effort went into creating sims, uploaded personalities obtained through destructive scanning of a person's brain. These efforts have largely been successful. Whilst officially banned in the ...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

It's just my typical luck: I discover and recover the billion-dollars worth of gold on a sunken galleon on the same day my arch-nemesis decides to detonate a one Megaton hydrogen bomb right above m...

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It is late in the day, and humanity has made the fateful step: digital transcendence for some. The last few weeks before the Singularity were singularly chaotic, with widespread violence by opponen...

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