Posts by dsr
Your intuition is correct. Let's suppose that at STP, a human needs to breathe 1L of O2 in 200 minutes. That's 1.43g of gaseous oxygen. If the pressure is raised to 5 bar, a human still needs 1.43g...
A back of the envelope calculation suggests that you need a velocity relative to the CMBR of more than 0.9c. (1mm microwaves blue-shifted to 570nm light typical of yellow dwarves) This is a proble...
Something you may not have thought of: the Earth-Luna system has the barycenter inside the Earth's radius. Fairly deep inside, in fact -- about 25% of the way down from the surface. Your system as...
An average human masses 60Kg. The largest bird ever to fly, Argentavis, massed about that much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentavis So it seems reasonable that flying creatures the same weig...
For the sake of a fictional story, you should be thoroughly aware that the author is playing as a god. The laws are what you want them to be, and what you say happens is what happens. I am not awa...
Neopanamax beam is just under 52m, with a height of just under 60m. Let's give it about 50% margins on each side, and that give you 100m between bridge supports. A suspension bridge with a 100m spa...
