AndyD273‭

A heat pipe system should be able to handle what your load. The advantage of heat pipes over many other heat-dissipation mechanisms is their great efficiency in transferring heat. A pipe one in...

posted 8y ago by AndyD273‭

So you set it up like a drug trial. First phase is really small, maybe 10 people to get dosing figured out. Maybe use some underprivileged people who would like a place to sleep and some money. If ...

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Start with pulsar planet like the ones that formed around the pulsar Lich, but a little further out and tidally locked so that it becomes something like a hot eyeball world: Set the planet at ...

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So in general terms, if the planet was like Earth in size and atmosphere, but had an orbit of .8 AU's instead of 1 AU, then the planet would have an average surface temperature of Kelvin: 322, Cels...

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Learned behaviour. Like staking an elephant or Pavlov's dogs. When the dragon was young and more fragile it had a bad experience with some trappers who thought it would be fun to hurt it with fire...

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So I think a two prong attack. First prong is to remove all the defenses, and an easy way to do that is with EMP's. Launch nukes on SCUDS from container ships 25 miles up over the continents and...

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Use the vacuum to help cool the ship. Specifically, have several enclosed/mostly enclosed spaces that are transparent to IR and that is pumped to a vacuum. Use water to absorb the heat, and then sp...

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So start with a planet that is mostly made of a metal with a low melting point, say lead. It's set close enough to a star that during the day the surface becomes liquid, but it also has a low rotat...

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So wind wise, you'd have Hadley cells that extend around the planet. Basically hot dry air on the sunward side would cause the air to heat up, rise, and make a low pressure area. Meanwhile on the f...

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Keeping it on mars, one easy reason is flooding. If they are there teraforming, things start to warm up, a lot of permafrost will melt. That water has to go somewhere, and the most likely place is ...

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There is one way that we know of that can make this happen, which is tidal energy. Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa both have a lot of water, as does Saturn's moon Enceladus. As they orbit thei...

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You might not want them following you home You never know what you might run into out in the deep of space. If you come across a new civilization that would pose an imminent threat to humanity, su...

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The planet could have wildly inconsistent gravity. Gravity on Earth is non uniform, though it's hard to tell because of the variations are slight. But if this planet had a large super dense mas...

posted 7y ago by AndyD273‭

I think if the planet had an atmosphere that was very thick to keep heat in at ground level, heavy in hydrogen and helium, with a very strong magnetic field to keep solar rays from knocking them aw...

posted 7y ago by AndyD273‭

Cut a road into the canyon walls. In order to build stuff on Mars, they are going to need a lot of heavy earth moving equipment. Simply start digging/mining along the edge of the canyon, and mak...

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