Activity for Josh King‭

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Question	—	Methods to Stabilize Geology in Large Artificial Space Environments Everyone loves a Dyson Sphere or a Ring World, so much more room to enjoy than a traditional round planetoid, it's all about space efficiency for the advanced civilizations. There are however a number of problems with these large artificial space environments, the one I would like to focus on today ... (more)	—	about 7 years ago
Question	—	Hurricanes in a Large Ringworld, Clockwise or Anti-clockwise rotation? On Earth and other planets, the surfaces spherical shape and rotation lead to a Coriolis effect or force which causes large storms and weather systems to rotate (clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Southern). In a large Ringworld system (Either Niven style around a star or... (more)	—	about 8 years ago
Question	—	How fast could Earth rotate and continue to support life? So tomorrow for some unknown reason Earth starts spinning significantly faster. How fast could it spin before life on earth dies. What would be the extinction factor? Super storms, the planet disintegrates, everything on the surface gets thrown into space, etc. (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Visibility in a ringworld atmosphere? So I am proposing a ring-world of approximately 1600 km diameter. The ring spins for earth like gravity. The ring itself would be several kilometers thick with Earth like variations in elevation (i.e. mountains less than 8 km above sea level, with ocean trenches of similar depth) The atmosphere wo... (more)	—	over 8 years ago