Activity for FreeElk
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Noticing visitors to our galaxy Prelude Prelude TLDR; A fleet of ships is passing through our galaxy, stopping off at particular stars and causing small dips in the light from stars. This is related to a couple of other questions (and a little suspension of belief to make it fit the story I want). The other questions are refuelin... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Detecting objects around other stars My question on refueling around stars got me thinking about the transit method of detecting planets and how it could be used to detect a ship whilst it is refueling (either by accident or on purpose). Now I know whether they can detect the ship depends on the size of the ship and the distance it is ... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Refueling from stars My galaxy exploring ship is powered by a fusion reactor (back up with some solar panels but they spend a long time between stars). We know that stars are powered by fusion too, so they have all the ingredients we need and I've seen sci-fi use this...but the question is: Could we actually get our fus... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |