Activity for Cereza
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How likely are Coriolis-effect-based quirks to develop in starship crew members? This one's more sociological, and it seems like a shoe-in to me, but sociology was never my strength. Given how pronounced the Coriolis effect of a smaller Von Braun wheel would be, does it seem likely that crews on star ships with such environments would habitually develop some odd quirks that acc... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How could a civilization detect tachyons? In an effort to work out a believable form of faster-than-light communications for my setting, I've ruled out a few things: wormholes (which are in use, but are too random in where they lead, to be used for this) and quantum entanglement (which flat out doesn't work for information transfer). In my ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Deep space acceleration limits? Assuming the power source for such acceleration places no limit on things, how quickly can a space craft be accelerated to the speed necessary to cross the distance between Jupiter and the sun in about 30 days time, without the G forces causing harm or unbearable discomfort to the crew? (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Justification of physical currency in an interstellar civilization? I have seen a similar-ish question on here, but it doesn't quite match my inquiry. Suppose you have an interstellar civilization (the means of travel between stars being stable two-way wormholes on the outer edges of each system), which has somehow also circumvented the light speed problem for commu... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Could a brown dwarf in our outer solar system remain undetected today? We've all heard the on-again, off-again theories of another massive object in the vast reaches of the outer solar system. Some potential evidence to support the possibility are its affects on smaller dwarf planet bodies, with their distorted orbits. I think most propose it to be a very large gas gia... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Could you carry a wormhole through another wormhole? Okay, let's assume that travel between star systems is done through stable, stationary wormholes on the outer boundaries of each system. This alone is slightly magic for now, of course, but let's roll with it. I want to solve the light speed problem for communications as well. Obviously, communicati... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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Can a 15km, rapidly-spining asteroid go undiscovered until the asteroid belt is being actively explored? What I want to know is if an asteroid about 15 KM in diameter and roughly double that in length, spinning at a significant speed, could go undiscovered until a crew of an asteroid mining ship happened upon it, out in the belt (specifically the Mars/Jupiter belt, not the Kuiper belt). A little bit of... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
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Genetic diversity in an interstellar society In my project, which portrays a modern take on the classic Asimovian "human empire among the stars", I have a society connected by stable wormholes which are as instantaneous as the portals in the game ... Portal. Energy is practically boundless because fusion has been mastered, and hydrogen is every... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Avoiding Violation of Causality with Stable Wormholes In laying out the groundwork for a series of stories I'd like to write, I'm positing a somewhat modernly-realistic take on the "well-aged human empire in the stars" type of setting the classic authors used to portray so elegantly. I want to avoid as much suspension of disbelief by way of what advanc... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |