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Activity for Alex Zuan‭

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Question How to harvest resources from a gas giant?
Yesterday i was playing a bit of Aurora 4x, and among other resources, there's one called Sorium, which is then refined to produce fuel for starships. Sorium is found on gas giants, or super jovian planets, which are defined as extremely large gas giants. I was wondering: how could a spaceship capa...
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about 7 years ago
Question How to generate energy from recoil?
Yesterday I was reading through this question and it got me thinking: would it be possible on a ship or building mounted railgun to convert the energy from the recoil of the shot in order to partially recharge its capacitors for the next shot?
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over 7 years ago
Question Would a planet with a 4 year solar orbit have differing seasons?
I'm writing a setting for some fantasy novels, and came up with an idea about weather and climate. The world I'm imagining has an elliptical orbit around a binary system, giving it basically 2 stars. My question however regards the seasons cycle. The way I've drafted it is that such a planet would ...
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almost 8 years ago