Activity for Amziraroâ€
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Would 'cheap' FTL make powerful telescopes obsolete? Imagine we have a faster-than-light drive which costs $250,000 USD per drive and can propel an ISS-sized craft at 1000 times the speed of light. It is reliable and has safeguards that stop it from plowing into things at high speed. How the FTL drive works is irrelevant; it could be an Alcubierre driv... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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How would the Great Atmospheric Catastrophe come about? How can the atmosphere rapidly change composition? Around 2.3 Billion Years ago, the Atmosphere changed radically: Cyanobacteria started pumping out Oxygen and the atmosphere gradually became Oxygen rich. 2.3 Billion Years is a long time, even in a geological timescale, I want to see a great De-O... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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Spitfires in Space! or Aircraft inside a Rotating Habitat Lets say we have a huge cigar shaped habitat, filled with a breathable atmosphere, and rotating on one axis at the right speed to have about 1 'g' of acceleration on the inside surface. To give the habitat some (rather tentative and flexible) dimensions we'll say it has a Diameter of 5km, and a Leng... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |
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Could a human engineer comprehend alien electronics? Let's say a human engineer comes across an alien electronics lab. It occurs to me that electrons are electrons, if the aliens are at a similar state of development to us then at least the simplest (discrete?) components might be similar in operating principle and should be recognisable. On the othe... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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Preventing an AGI from becoming smarter So there are these AGIs made by some ancient aliens (who are out of the picture for now). The ancient aliens were a lot more intelligent than humans, we are at a dog-like intelligence level compared to them, and they were also rather prone to creating extremely dangerous artifacts1. The aliens made t... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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What would life around a hydrothermal vent on Europa be like? Hydrothermal vents are thought to exist on Europa. On Earth, these vents are surrounded by all manner of freakish and bizarre looking creatures, mainly various worms, crabs and octopodes. Europa's ocean(s) are much deeper than on Earth, I imagine that pressure might become an issue. Also, Vulcanoct... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |