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Posts by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A What is the highest pressure humans can live in in comfort?

These people inhabit an underwater city. In the city there are pools that connect the dry habitat with the outside ocean, this of course mean that the habitat is unpressurized and therefore the in...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Rigorous Science A different artificial gravity: Ultradense material

Guests of this large space station enjoy Earth-like gravity (80-90% minimum). How? Well the space station is so massive it has its own gravity. The disk shaped "core" is made with ultradense mater...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Rigorous Science Can machines raise socially functioning people?

In this world a secret society "farms" people with desired features (personality appearances etc.). They have ectogenesis of course; but they can't afford personnel to take care of the "products" u...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

Question society robots
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Q&A Where to place an artificial oceanic island?

I want to build a seastead in international waters that starts small. It has to be in the Atlantic, preferably in the northern hemisphere close to either the american or european continent. Due t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Skysteading: How to build a flying city

I am building a city in the sky; it floats thanks to hot air balloons and hydrogen. The main issue I have is how to make it grow, as this is not some kind of giant structure to start, it is a small...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Where to place an artificial gland in the human body?

An artificial endocrine gland is cultured in the lab and is to be inserted in a person. This gland functions by secreting special substances in the blood stream. It needs to be placed in a positi...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A The lava waterfall door

Some areas of the evil meant lair are not for the eyes of the average minion. There is only one way in and out of this area, there is no door blocking the way, but a lava waterfall pouring from the...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by SilverCookies‭

Question engineering
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Q&A Geoengineering for dummies

My human civilization is facing (much like us) the threat of anthropogenic climate change. For whatever reasons, they are unwilling to take action by reducing the use of fossil fuels and refuse to ...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Can we shoot bullets into a specific LEO?

Using only existing technologies, can we shoot 4-5 kg bullets into a stable, specific Low Earth Orbit (at least 1000 km)? The bullets don't contain "hardware" such as electronics, so acceleration ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Jupiter becomes a star, how long have we left? (2010)

"Your children will be born in a world of two suns. They will never know a sky without them. You can tell them that you remember when there was a pitch black sky with no bright star, and people fea...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

Question space apocalypse
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Q&A How do I store Helium in a large space colony?

My space colonies are mainly located onto large, partialy terraformed moons in our solar system. They still travel using rockets but due to their vessels' large size they need very powerful propuls...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A an artificial fission star

A K2+ civilization wants to build a fission star, a huge mass of fissile material which doesn't collapse due to the radiation emitted by its fission decay. I know there are reactors like the aqueou...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A 0g pool: can I keep a big ball of water in space?

I have a super luxury space hotel. It has artificial gravity in the living and shopping area and 0g in some parts of the recreational area. There is a 0g pool available for the guests. I want it ...

13 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A A simple, yet effective, respirator

These settlers live on a planet, which surface temperature and pressure are compatible with human life. However humans cannot breath its atmosphere. The gas in the atmosphere is not necessarily tox...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Creaturebuilding: finless waterdwelling animal

This creature is a waterdweller that somewhat resemble a fish. It lives in the retreating oceans of a planet orbiting a star that is reaching its red giant stage. The planet is now experiencing ver...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Building and stabilizing a SupraWorld.

Imagine a SupraWorld being built around a gas giant like Jupiter. To have a 1g gravity on the surface the resulting SupraWorld would have to be less than twice the radius of the giant (my calculati...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Floating buildings on Venus. What shapes are credible?

Venus is being paraterraformed with floating cities. Mechanical machines collect material from the surface and send it floating at an altitude of about 50 Km where conditions are more Earth-like. H...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A How can self-replicating machines collect and sort raw material?

I am already aware of the concept of the fusion torch. But I would like to consider other solutions for separation of raw materials that can be automated but are less "extreme" and closer to curr...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭

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Q&A Can I have a planetary liquid or gas ring system?

My space colonists have found a home in the ring system of a (maybe chthonian) gas giant. The rings are based on Saturn's in terms of appearance, but can they be made of gases or liquid (maybe drop...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by SilverCookies‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by SilverCookies‭