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Posts by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Interplanetary electron gun

How feasible would it be to use a huge electron gun to pump electrons from a solar array positioned close to the Sun back to Earth or Mars? My idea is to create a eletrical circuit by means of usi...

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Interstellar communication

Scenario: Earth men colonized a terraformed planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. There are already industries developed there, farms, mining etc. There's a large fleet of cargo ship capable of reaching...

4 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A What is the best way to exploit the energy from a red dwarf and send it to other systems?

Scenario: Earth men colonized Alpha Centauri. Barnard's Star is at range. There is a huge fleet of fission bomb pulse propulsion cargo ships. Given Enough time and space they can reach 0.8C. Qu...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Black hole launcher

Humans developed a new weapon: Black hole launcher. How it works: A mobile particle acelerator acelerates two particles to huge speeds and collide both. A mini black hole is created. The mini b...

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Could life in a planemo be sustained by cosmic background radiation?

I need to create a race that should be utterly older than humanity (and as such, much more powerful). My idea is to have that race originate from a rock planemo - a rogue planet, orbiting the cente...

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Taming wormholes

An ancient civilization mapped wormholes when the universe was quite young and smaller. This allowed them to reach other galaxies (wormholes from our galaxy to others). They mapped it all. Humans ...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Explosive plants

Plants in our world evolved various kinds of defenses, like poison, urticating hairs, thorns etc. What i dont see is plants that defend themselves by means of explosions. The explosion by itself ...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Surface temperature of a icy rogue planet

A certain imaginary stellar system had once a water world. But instead of evaporating away under the stellar wind, this lucky (or unlucky?) water world (made of only water and a gaseous atmosphere)...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Plants made out of metals

Carbon dominates the makeup of life on Earth. But is there any way that plants could be made out of metals, or somehow integrate metals with their constitution? For example, we use calcium in our...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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Q&A Time passes only if an observer sees

Based on the situation described by this earlier question: recap If due to some strange phenomena that changed our universe laws, time stopped and can only move if a creature capable of observing...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Jorge Aldo‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jorge Aldo‭

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